Having significantly reduced waste and energy use, schoolchildren now look after the vegetable garden on the school grounds, harvesting potatoes, onions, carrots, vegetable marrow and strawberries.
Unlike the common soup of vegetable marrows, that of green pumpkins has a more definite taste and a greater consistence in their cooking that makes it more pleasant.
The second was a main course of savoury egg cake, short pasta and wild mushrooms, for which a side dish of slow-cooked vegetable marrow was an ideal accompaniment.
