Crops, chickens, polytunnels… …and children

At first glance, Grow may seem like another well-meaning community project for children, operating in the worthwhile realms of forest school and playground veg patches. But dig a little deeper and you’ll find a bold enterprise on a mission to transform the way our children are educated.

Grow was founded in 2019 by former TV presenter George Lamb, who made a dramatic career change when he became aware of the systemic issues in the way our children are educated, as well as the depressing inequality in opportunities for children to interact with the natural world. His objective in setting up the charity was to inspire a shift from bums-on-seats classroom learning to a more holistic approach by feeding traditional subjects through the prism of the outdoors, regenerative farming and