Schools are growing more food than ever before and are helping to carry the Olympic legacy.

Since 2008, when the Mayor of London launched his Capital Growth Scheme, 53 food growing spaces have been created in Sutton, 29 of which have been in schools.

The Mayor Boris Johnson announced last week London had achieved its target of creating 2012 spaces by turning disused plots into areas brimming with fruit and veg and there are now Capital Growth spaces in every London borough.

The biggest response to the Capital Growth challenge has come from schools with 687 schools signed up involving 66,000 pupils.

Capital Growth plots are now growing on roofs, in donated recycling boxes, in skips, alongside canals and in builders bags providing healthy food to a range of places including shops and restaurants.

Sutton Community Farm, an independent social enterprise, has built a packing shed, polytunnels and launched a vegetable box scheme.

It has a regular team of volunteers and hold weekly activity days, with the aim of growing produce to sell to the local community.

Apprentices are also taken on, ensuring that people can learn important farming skills.

Only last month, Prince Charles and Jamie Oliver visited Carshalton Sports College to praise pupils efforts in the garden.

The heir to the throne was given a tour of the school's garden, complete with allotment and greenhouse as well as its chicken coop.

The school has turned results around since it adopted a new healthy eating menu. It has gone from having four per cent of its pupils achieving A-C grades at GCSE in 2004, to 56 per cent this year.