Buckland St. Mary C of E Primary
School
Chard, Somerset TA20 3SJ
Telephone: 01460-234251
Fax: 01460-234708 Click Here to
email us
Froots Roots En SHoots – or FRESH
as it is otherwise known – is our food cooperative,
run entirely by the children in Beech class –
including customer services, ordering department, finance,
IT department and quality assurance. It all started
as part of a competition in 2004, and we are still going
strong now!
Froots Roots En SHoots sell
locally grown, organic vegetables at competitive prices.
We are a non-profit making co-operative and we give
away any excess money we have to worthy causes. Each
week, you can purchase a veg bag containing top quality
veg and a recipe to help you use it all! Just to get
your mouth watering, we have included an example of
one of our recipes below.
There is
also an order form if you would like to order a weekly
veg bag from us. Alternatively, you can email us through
the school contact address on this site (just start
your mail ‘FAO: FRS’), or phone one of
our customer services team on the school contact number.
Please note that you don’t have to order a bag
every week!
The
veg bags are available for collection every Friday.
We make sure that all of
the veg is of very high quality and if something
is rotten and we can’t give them to you
one week, we will give you something extra next
week or give you a refund. Normally, you will
get 5 different varieties of vegetables. We
pack heavier vegetables at the bottom of the
bag and the lighter ones at the top, so nothing
gets squished!
Each week
the team count the amount of vegetables supplied
and we group them together according to how
many veg bags have been ordered.
When we have finished sorting them, our IT department
write a new recipe for you as well.
One of our
jobs is to order the vegetables. When they arrive
they are bagged up and we deal with the money
coming in for the veg bags. Froots Roots En
SHoots started as a competition involving schools
in England and Ireland. We won the prize for
the best food cooperative in the English schools.
