Free fruit for Handsworth

By Kimberley Perry


Local grocery store 'Veg Patch' have donated fresh fruit and plant seeds for students at St Josephs School for a new project beginning in March.


Year five and six pupils from the primary school will be helping to plant a variety of fruit trees in Handsworth Park which will see them involved in digging holes and learning how to make fruit juice in a 'juice making workshop'. 


Handsworth Forum manager Steve Wylie said: "We want the children to be involved with positive activities, especially in todays society where kids are associated with growing into a knife and gun crime culture." 


Councillors from the East Community Assembly have awarded the Forum £1600 to plant the new fruit trees which will regularly produce free fruit for the community. The School children will also be learning how to crush and press the fruit aswell as helping to plant them. 


The park will see over 50 new fruit trees and bushes which will include apple, cherry and blackberry.