THE ALLOTMENT project of a local college in Eastleigh has been a big success, producing fresh healthy produce for its canteen.

Since it's creation last year, Barton Peveril College's Allotment project has been very successful, transforming an unused area of the college campus into an area that can offer students the chance to learn new skills outside of the classroom, and a place where fresh produce can be grown to be used in the college canteen.

So far, the Allotment Project has grown an array of fruit and vegetable products, including, spinach, spring onions, potatoes, onions, tomatoes, lettuce and more.

One of the students involved in the Project, Nathaniel Sergi, based this Extended Project Qualification on his work on the allotment, by planting seedlings and wildflower seeds into the bank, in a bid to encourage bees to make their home in the sustainable area of college land.

Nathaniel said: "My ambition was to take an unused, overgrown area alongside the newly created college allotment and transform it into an area where wildflowers and plants would grow, encouraging a wide range of pollinators and where wildlife can thrive within a highly urbanised area.

"It was fortunate that I cultivated and sowed the wildflower area on March 14 - just the week before lockdown. Although college has been closed and I have been unable to visit until this last week, the rain and sun have played their part ensuring the survival of the bank. I will leave Barton Peveril College in summer 2021 but my living wildflower installation will hopefully help wildlife and pollinators for years to come.”