Celebrity baker launches Bake Your Lawn

On Monday 23 January 2012, Real Bread Campaign ambassador Tom Herbert sows the Bake Your Lawn challenge for schools around Britain: grow your own loaf!

To launch the Real Bread Campaign’s scheme, the fifth generation Hobbs House Baker, co-star of the current Channel 4 series The Fabulous Baker Brothers and co-author of the Headline book of the same name (published 19 January) will help pupils at Horsley Primary School in Gloucestershire sow a small plot of organic wheat in the school’s grounds.

Tom Herbert said: ’I’m really excited to help show kids at my local school how easy it is to make lush loaves of Real Bread. This is where the natural magic begins and gives real meaning to the saying "dig in!"’

Horsley Primary School head teacher Martin Fry added: ’Bake Your Lawn is a great scheme for all schools. It gives pupils an understanding of how Real Bread is made by taking them on an inspirational journey through the whole process from seed to sandwich.’

Teachers and other community youth group leaders can order 100g packets of organic wheat seeds for planting between now and late-April. The free (donations welcome) grow it, mill it, bake it, eat it Bake Your Lawn guide to turning 25g of seed into a 1m2 wheat patch and ultimately a small loaf is also available to download from the site. Children are encouraged to keep wheat diaries from sowing through to harvest, milling and baking. Photos and wheat diaries from the first Bake Your Lawn in 2011 can be found in the events section of the Campaign’s website.

In support of Bake Your Lawn, members of the charity Garden Organic are being offered wheat seeds as part of their Members’ Experiments scheme. The Campaign also encourages bakers, farmers and millers to get involved by helping children from local schools with sowing, growing, milling and baking.