Make your own "Cress Head" film, says Dorset Cereals

By fcharles

DORSET Cereals has launched a competition to "Make Your Own Cress Head Film," to encourage families, friends and groups to get together and enjoy growing, filming, and eating their own vegetables.

As part of the company's support for the Edible Playground project, Dorset Cereals has produced a full explanation of how to make your own cress heads and how to bring them to life using animation for its film competition.

To find out more and to enter, visit www.edible playgrounds.co.uk.

The aim of the Edible Playground scheme, created by Screen Bites, Dorset's Food Film Festival in 2006, and adopted by Dorset Cereals in 2007 is to encourage everyone, particularly children, to get growing fruit and vegetables.

What could be easier than growing a cress head, decorating the eggs to make little characters and filming the cress as it grows over a week?

The competition is open to all ages young and old and the top five winning film entries will win a flip camera worth £80. The deadline for entries is 20th October. All you need to enter is access to a computer, a digital camera, some eggs, some Lego, a few cress seeds and some imagination. .

Through its support for the Edible Playgrounds scheme, Dorset Cereals has helped hundreds of schools to establish fruit and vegetable plots. The company is committed to getting every primary school in the country growing food in their playgrounds. The initiative is supported by the Royal Horticultural Society's Campaign for School Gardening.

To sign up or find out more about how to get growing fruit and vegetables with children visit the Edible Playgrounds website.

In 2008, Dorset Cereals entered Edible Playgrounds show gardens at RHS Chelsea Flower Show and RHS Hampton Court to inspire parents and teachers to create their own school garden. Designed, planted and constructed by Dorset based businesses, the two gardens were visited by over 320,000 people and won Gold and Best Courtyard Garden at Chelsea and Gold and Best Show Garden at Hampton Court.

For more on Dorset Cereals' Edible Playgrounds visit www.edible playgrounds.co.uk

For Screen Bites: Food Film Festival visit www.screen-bites.co.uk.