GC Middle School Open day with book launch – Foraging Gozo

Gozo College Middle School through its EkoSkola Committee, is taking part in the EU funded `We Eat Responsibly,’ the Community link project organised by WasteServ and the LEAF programme to promote a Zero-Waste Society. There are 21 schools participating in the WER programme and 10 schools in the Community Link by WasteServ.The action plan of the school focuses on responsible food consumption, waste reduction and appreciation of the outdoors.

Taking a whole school approach, students learnt about edible wild plants, went foraging and cooked various recipes using foraged leaves to reach the aims of the action plan.They celebrated a week long programme of activities as part of the EkoSkola project. On Friday, during the school’s Open Day, the recipe book `Foraging Gozo.’ was launched, it makes use of wild plants like nettle, borage, fennel and sea beet. The aim of the recipe book is to reach out to more people to raise awareness about new ingredients which are frequently considered as waste.

There was an exhibition prepared by the year 8 students on Maltese Wild plants, a We Eat Responsibly game was displayed and assisted by the WER team, there was food sampling made from Maltese wild plants, seasoned salt and mandarin sugar was sold in jars that had been collected at school during the European Week for Waste Reduction ^[1],

Congratulations were given to all those involved in the project.

For more information about the project and the recipe book please contact the school on gc.rabat.ms@ilearn.edu.mt

Top photographs: MGOZ/George Scerri, others photos by Gozo College Middle School – Foraging for plants and cooking with the ingredients