Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College

The Fircroft Plantry is a joint venture between our kitchen and our garden, showcasing local, ethical and sustainable products via our small on site shop

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

What an absolutely gorgeous day, perfect for being out in our beautiful gardens 🥰

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Currently very well stocked, dare we mention stocking fillers?! 🎄🎁 😏

A limited run of some delicious Blackberry and Pheasantberry fruit leather now available! Plus everything appley is still going strong thanks to the epic harvest this year 🍏🍎🍏🍎

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Dropped into @FircroftPlantry yesterday to see how their @VeoliaUK College Orchard kitchen garden produce is now a well-branded and sustainable Business in the Community market place 🎄🌍🧑🏽‍🎤🐝🐞🧞‍♀️@FircroftCollege @wmsussch @healthybrum @SellyOakNNS @AlistairCarns

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

A beautiful, cold day outside, and a warm, creative one inside! Christmas will soon be coming to Fircroft Plantry!

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[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

🆕Home Grow Handbook with some wonderful tips to get you started 🌿 And Seed bomb bags 🌸🌻🌼🌺now avalible at the Fircroft Plantry

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Very proud to have received a highly commended Creating Impact award for our Plantry and related project, and absolutely thrilled for Green Changemakers to have won the Digital Futures award!
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A very happy evening for @FircroftCollege 🎉💚

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

We now sell 100% Natural smoothies 🍌🍊🍉🍎🍒🍑🥥🥝🍈🍇 Happy Days 😁

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

A couple of our new range of bath soaks now available in the Fircroft Plantry! Some more varieties coming soon!

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Autumn is a nice time in the gardens @FircroftCollege, the pace isn't as hectic as it can be in spring and summer and the timing is just right for planting projects, like this new border started today on the woodland side of our pond.

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A glorious start to the today - @FircroftCollege gardens today featuring saffron crocuses, a freshly mown lawn, and the self seeded Verbena bonariensis in the veg garden!

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Our vegetable garden looking lovely in the autumn sunshine today! Featuring a new pond in progress thanks to a kind donation & the hard work of our brilliant Mother Garden students. This will be a wildlife pond that will hopefully attract some of nature's pest controllers!🐸🐌🍂

[Cannon Hill Park @cannonhillpark]

@healthybrum Take a look at @FircroftCollege Plantry project using the circular economy to recycle waste and the produce from their Mother Garden in the kitchen and shop with a Christmas Market this winter https://t.co/Rj1eD6QMPT @Food_Foundation @food_trails

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Apple, lavender and rose tea anyone? Available soon!!

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Can you help?

We are after donations of glass jars/small bottles with lids to help us keep up with all the products being made! Collection point in reception, so if you are visiting soon please do bring any you can spare, they will definitely be put to good use 😊

Thank you!

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Today's Plantry lunch dishes were orzo Greek pasta salad or a Italian orzo pasta salad with beautiful dressing made with our own fircroft honey and herbs. And not forgetting the soup of the day a @FircroftCollege apple potato and leek 😋 Enjoy

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Now available, making the most of a huge apple harvest! Spiced apple tea, spiced apple fruit leather and spiced apple butter 🍎🍏🍎🍏

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Dexter of Fircroft overseeing the veg harvest this morning! Lots of lovely stuff for some tasty autumnal meals there, and more apples ready to be cooked up into something delicious for the Fircroft Plantry shop.

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We don't just share our grounds with all our wonderful students and staff, there's a whole host of wildlife passing through or making it home too, here's just a selection from recent years!

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[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Fresh mint harvested to be dried for our #FircroftPlantry teas!

[Fircroft Plantry @ Fircroft College @FircroftPlantry]

Growing our own #FircroftPlantry ginger crop! This one piece of ginger has sprouted four new plants to grow on to produce more ginger to harvest next year. Let's see what delicious recipes our kitchen can use this for, or maybe some ginger tea mixes?