Youngsters from Fieldhead School and St Patrick's School tucked into a meal made from vegetables they had grown in a Field to Fork project at the Nutter Lane park.

Staff at the park have been teaching them how to plant and tend a range of vegetables, including potatoes and radishes, and gave each school a piece of land to grow their crops in.

As well has harvesting their crops, the pupils churned butter for their bread and used fruit from the garden to make coulis for dessert.

Oakwell ranger Amanda Walker arranged the project with the schools, and said as she was a former chef, Field to Fork was a project close to her heart.

She said: "I wanted to encourage children to grow and eat their own vegetables."

Amanda said the project had the desired effect as the pupils have started growing their own food at home.

She added: "The children were tasting things they had never tasted before."

Headteacher of Fieldhead School Kirsty Free said the project had helped the pupils learn about growing crops and taking responsibility.

She said: "The children were so wonderfully engaged with what they did at Oakwell and were very brave in tasting some of the foods they had grown which were a little more unusual.

"They have come back very keen on growing things and some of the pupils have started growing things at home. We are also going to start a vegetable plot here at the school.

"Some of the children have even been taking their families to see their vegetables growing."