Earth Day 2025: School visit to Farrans encourages biodiversity learnings

Today (Tuesday 22 April 2025) marks the 55th Earth Day, a day to highlight the importance of our planet and the conservation of its ecosystems on all continents and oceans.

The theme for Earth Day 2025 is OUR POWER, OUR PLANET, inviting everyone around the globe to unite behind renewable energy to triple the global generation of clean electricity by 2030.

This week as part of our Earth Day celebrations in Farrans we were delighted to welcome St Anne’s Primary School to our head office. Together with our partners at Natural World Products, we teamed up to celebrate World Earth Day in the best way possible – hands on fun and learning!

Representatives of the school’s Eco Council, our special guests were 8 – 11 years old. We thoroughly enjoyed hearing the pupils enthusiastically share their environmental plans and targets. We were particularly impressed to learn about the outcomes of their latest addition to the school, a biodiversity pond.

Farrans’ Sustainability Lead, Vicki Johnson, explained to the children the significance of creating biodiversity corridors and the work we are doing at our own offices and sites to attract more wildlife.

With St Anne’s School based across the road, the children were intrigued to learn about the significance of partnership working and how our work at both locations would support each other to achieve better biodiversity outcomes.

Sharon McMaster, Community Growing & Outreach Manager at Natural World Products, delivered a captivating lesson on;
•    How compost is created
•    Where the brown bin waste goes, a reminder of what does and does not go into a brown bin
•    A show and tell of a live wormery
•    Re-potting some peas grown from seed
•    Creation of a herb garden – did you know there is a chocolate mint variety? It has top notes of mint Aero, according to our experts at St Anne’s.

In the spirit of conservation, the day was rounded off with some up-cycling. Old hard hats were transformed into bright hanging baskets. The children enjoyed planting them out and proudly carried them back to school along with their new herb garden.