On the 6th February 2024, The KIC signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with Blue Skies Foundation (BSF) to transfer the governance and implementation of the School Farm Competition to KIC. Having started the Blue Skies School Farm Competition in Ghana in 2015, and nurtured its growth to the point […]
Category: School Farm
Winners Announced at School Farm Awards 2023
Blue Skies, KIC and Mastercard Foundation have announced award winners of the 2023 School Farm Competition at a ceremony held on 24th November 2023 in Kumasi. In attendance were Nana Yaw Sarpong Siriboe I, 2022 National Best Farmer, Mr. Joe Mensah, Board Chair, KIC. Representatives from the Ghana Education Service, […]
Blue Skies awards 2021 School Farm of the Year winners
Congratulations to St. Fidelis Senior High School on winning the 2021 School Farm of the Year Competition (SHS category) and St. Michael’s Anglican Basic School, Nsawam on winning the JHS category. The Blue Skies School Farm of the Year aims to re-engage young people in agriculture to encourage our next […]
Blue Skies to introduce School Farm Toolkit during live streamed awards
The Blue Skies Foundation has launched a new toolkit to help businesses and organisations start their own School Farm of the Year Competition. The Toolkit will be unveiled during the 5th annual awards of the Blue Skies School Farm Competition in Ghana where the 2020 School Farm winners will be […]
Toolkit to help agribusinesses run their own School Farm Competition
The Blue Skies Foundation has launched a new Toolkit for agribusinesses to start their own School Farm of the Year Competition. Following the success of the initiative launched by Blue Skies in Ghana in 2015, the Toolkit provides detailed guidance for other organisations to replicate the model which is designed […]
School Farm Awards inspire the next generation
Blue Skies is encouraging the next generation of agricultural entrepreneurs after crowning the winners of its 2019 School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The School Farm Competition of the Year Competition was launched by the Blue Skies Foundation in 2015 as a way of encouraging more young people […]
2018 School Farm of the Year winners revealed
Blue Skies have awarded winners of the 2018 School Farm of the Year during a ceremony at the GNAT Hall in Koforidua, Ghana on the 30th of November. Over 600 students attended the ceremony representing sixty schools who participated in this year’s School Farm of the Year Competition, which was […]
2017 School Farm Winners announced
Blue Skies has awarded winners of the 2017 School Farm of the Year during a ceremony at the GNAT Hall in Koforidua, Ghana on the 30th of November. Over 600 students attended the ceremony representing sixty schools who participated in this year’s School Farm of the Year Competition. The School […]
School Farm Competition wins Waitrose Way Award
Blue Skies are honoured to have received a Waitrose Way Award for its School Farm of the Year Competition in Ghana. The Waitrose Way Awards are held each year to acknowledge Waitrose suppliers who have demonstrated achievement in the field of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). Blue Skies are a long-standing […]
Case Study: 2016 School Farm of the Year
The School Farm of the Year competition has been introduced to encourage more young people to consider farming as an interesting and viable career. In 2016 around 90 schools applied to take part in the competition with a total of 60 selected to participate. All kinds of vegetable crops were […]