Little stocking filler, perfect for posting £5

Chrissie Cress' or Mingo Mungbean's Story & Seed Pack. I recommend either of these packs for a super speedy, indoor growing adventure.

Starter Kit £10

The ultimate Starter Kit ; storybook and seeds of your chosen vegetable and funky windowsill propagator. The propagator is colourful, re-usable and made from recycled plastic in the UK.      

NEW! Hand Forged Secret Seed Society Trowel £15 not just for kids!

This is a beautifully crafted tool for keen young gardeners or those with smaller hands. Made in Holland to last a life-time. Combine with Story & Seed Packs for the complete Secret Seed Society experience.            

BOXSET £20

Our most popular gift, the first 4 Story & Seed Packs as a Boxset. All printed in the UK with vegetables inks. READ, GROW, COOK & EAT.              

NEW!PERSONALISED Garden Tool Giftset £60 not just for kids!

These tools will last a lifetime. A spade, mattock and rake with long handles will cover most of the gardening jobs. Great for raised beds. The tools will now arrive in the New Year, so we will send a Secret Seed Gift card to your lucky recipient for Xmas to let them know their tolls will arrive shortly.            

SPECIAL OFFER FREE POSTAGE ON ALL XMAS ORDERS

Get in touch if you have any questions about our products or would like to have Secret Seed Society at your Xmas Fayre, we can offer you a retailer discount if you'd like to sell them for your fundraiser. Best Amy & Shena xx I love TED talks so I was well chuffed to get asked to talk about 'My Adventures with Vegetables'

 Last one to review a book is a rotten tomato!

...If you tell us what you think of our books then you will help us make MORE books. You'll also be helping children who haven't had the chance to read the books to know if they'd like to be a Seed Agent too.

Step 1 Read a Seed City Storybook.

Step 2 Tell us what you think of it. Write about it or if you prefer you could draw a picture or send us a video clip.

Step 3 Email your review to fun@secretseedsociety.com, or post to Studio 013, Netil House, 1a Westgate St, E8 3RL.

Step 4 See your opinion published on Secret Seed Society website and maybe even published in Anorak magazine!

Here's some questions to help you get started:

- Which book have you chosen to review and why?

- Who is your favourite character and why do you like them? Do they remind you of someone you know...your mum?

- Which character in the book would you like to be?

- Did you make the recipe? How did it taste?

- Which was the funniest page?

- How does it feel being a Seed Agent?

Send us your review and you could be the next Seed Agent of the Month!

Every review that we receive will be posted on the wesbite and will also give you the chance of becoming Seed Agent of the Month!

Now get reviewing our books, Seed Agents!

Rosie Boycott is a woman whose drive and passion for sustainable living is making unbelievable things happen! So we're over-the-moon-flattered that she likes what we're up to at the Secret Seed Society.

Londoners may have heard that last year Rosie and the Mayor of London launched the Capital Growth initiative with the aim to create 2,012 growing spaces in London by 2012 (in time for the Olympics). London is 1/3 green space, and has large amounts of roof space too that can be used for growing - we just need to use it!

Each space must be community-based so it not only improves the environment, but also provides a focal point around which people can gather and unite. By inspiring young families to get digging with their kids, Secret Seed Society hopes to help the Capital Growth team hit their 2012 target!

Click on the picture to read what Toby thought of Bong Bong Bongity Bong!

TGF Rated Review: Secret Seed Society

November 10, 2009 by sue

1 Comment

What is it? The aim of The Secret Seed Society is to make growing and eating food fun for children. They have just published their first Seed Agent pack, ‘No Hens in the Pen’ with Chrissie Cress.

Who is testing it? Me and my two daughters aged 2 and 5.

In Use: The Secret Seed Society Agent Pack comes in a brown, recycled card packet. Inside the pack there is a story book, packet of organic cress seeds and a Seed Agent Card for your child. The pack is really appealing and as soon as they saw it both my daughters were desperate to open it and see what was inside!

We started by reading the story book, ‘No Hens in the Pen’. Both girls enjoyed the story and loved Chrissie Cress with her cress hair! The story is great – it takes Chrissie Cress and her friend Peter Parsnip all the way round their farm in search of some eggs for the recipe they are making. We all loved the illustrations – a bold, colourful mix of photos and drawings.

As well as the story, the book includes instructions for growing your own cress. These are very simple and are ideal for younger children to follow with the help of an adult. Older children would easily be able to follow the instructions themselves. We had great fun planting our cress seeds and watching them grow and both girls loved the fact that they were growing cress just like Chrissie Cress in the book!

The book also includes a recipe for cheesy muffins, which look absolutely delicious! We haven’t made these yet, as our cress isn’t quite big enough to cut, and my daughters want to make muffin faces with cress hair, just like the ones shown in the book.

Any negatives?: None

Price and Availability: The pack costs £5.95 and can be ordered online from the Secret Seed Society.

Overall: We all really enjoyed this pack and my eldest daughter loved the idea of being a ‘Seed Agent’ and growing and looking after her own seeds. I really like the way the story, seeds and recipe all link together – it’s a wonderful idea and it’s great for children to have the seeds there ready to grow once they’ve read the story. It’s also a great way of encouraging children to eat the things they have grown. I will be keeping a look out for the next pack produced by the Secret Seed Society as I know my daughters would love it.

TGF Rating: 5/5

I was excited to receive some books from the Secret Seed Society for review.

We have very much enjoy growing vegetables in our garden, and books that link in to gardening are always going to be off to a good start with us.

The books are designed to be used as an interactive aid to introducing children to vegetables, exposing them to the benefits of vegetables, and how they actually get to the edible form they usually find them in.

“Secret Seed Society takes the whole family on a journey from plant to plate.”

In fact, I am selling them short by calling them ‘books’. They are actually supplied as ‘packs’. Each of which comes with an illustrated storybook, seeds, growing instructions and props, a recipe for your eventual produce and an invitation to join the Seed Agent Club online.

There are several titles that all centre around a character based on a vegetable, such as Rudi Radish, Carla Carrot and Mingo Mung.

The creator of Seed City, Shena Cooper, actually explains it much better. She told me: “Every vegetable has a story, and the other vegetables pop up in the other stories. The main idea is to entice very young children into the garden and kitchen, growing and preparing tasty food as they come to love their vegetables.”

They are designed for supervised play with the three-to-seven age group. My five-year-old son found the stories very enjoyable, notably as he found lots of the names given to the characters, and places in the story amusing.

The illustrations are good fun too. Drawings are colourful and play a big part in telling the stories on their own.

Each book is a handy size, ideal for children, and also for popping in a handbag (not that I have one).

We grew some mung beans, which was fun. And as they mature over a very short period – three to five days – we could return to our sprouting jar regularly to check on their progress, and to give them a rinse.

You are even encouraged to send your sprouting pictures to the Secret Seed Society, so as you can share your successes with others. But we’re only sharing ours with you.

The books make for a very pleasant read, and it is a project that deserves some attention and success.

You can find your local stockist of Secret Seed Society on their website, alternatively you can order directly from them online.

They also have a Facebook group, and you can even follow Peter Parsnip on Twitter.