A green-fingered primary school pupil in Bishop’s Stortford has turned her garden skills into cash for the town’s food bank.
Keira Moyes, 10, who is in Tokyo class in Year 5 at Richard Whittington, used her blossoming horticultural skills to set up her Seeds for Change initiative.
The youngster spent months saving cosmos, foxglove, marigold, poppy and pepper seeds from grandma Maureen Smith’s Park Avenue garden.
When she decided to sell them as part of harvest festival celebrations and give the proceeds to Bishop’s Stortford Food Bank, her teacher Emma Blackborrow backed the plan.
Proud mum Catherine, a senior model-maker at Wilkinson Eyre Architects in London, explained: “Richard Whittington had already adopted the food bank as its charity for Christmas term, so they turned Keira’s idea into a school-wide initiative by asking every class to design their own packets and a few seeds were put in each to sell.
“With help from two of her friends, Edie…
