Garden

Last week on Friday 19^th we had a garden lesson. First our group fed the chickens with the compost bin scraps from the canteen. We had to take out all the egg shells from the compost because if the chickens eat the egg shell then they will start eating their own eggs and if they eat their own eggs we won’t get to cook with them in the kitchen. Later on, we harvested the spring onions. We had nothing else to do so we went to the group that was planting the carrots. After that the lesson was finished.

Kitchen

Every fortnight we have a kitchen lesson. Today we made pizza, pastries, salad, tahini cookies, and preserved lemons (which we didn’t eat). My group made the fattoush salad. It didn’t take long so for the rest of the time we set the tables and cleaned up. Then it was time to eat (yay) all of the food was delicious! It was a great program.

by: sian

On Tuesday July 23rd, 2013. The children in 5B had a kitchen lesson , we made caramelised leek and potato pizza, silverbeet and cheese triangles, a fattoush salad, and tahini cookies. We also made preserved lemons. My group (Miles, Jacob, Jessica and I) made the tahini cookies with the help of my Mum. The tahini cookies were delicious. Another group made preserved lemons but you don’t eat them, you let them sit in a jar and after 6 weeks you can cook with the lemon skin. The silverbeet and cheese were so crunchy and yummy. The caramelized leek and potato pizza was amazing, and so was the fattoush salad.

On Friday we went to the garden, it was so beautiful to see all the fruits and vegetables and flowers that we planted earlier in the year. Everyone heard what they had to do and went off to do it. My group (Rachel, Guy, Ethan, Toby, Zac, and I) planted kale. We also made worm tea by collecting the worms pee and mixing it with water. We also put straw around vegetables. Other groups made chilli pesticide, planted fruits and vegies and watered them.

On Tuesday July 23rd, 2013 we went to the kitchen to cook some yummy food. My group (group 5) made a fattoush salad with pitta crisps. They were amazing. i also thought the the potato pizza was brilliant i had about 3 pieces!!! the crisps had to cook for 15 minutes so we had nothing to do because we had finished everything else. I had four people from my family come into the kitchen. My Granny and Zaida from South Africa, my other Granny and my Dad. the Kitchen Garden Programme is so FUN!!!

5b went to the garden on Friday July 19th 2013. My group planted carrots and pulled out the ones that were ready to be cooked in the kitchen. We also put hay and lama poo in the carrot bed to help them grow. Another group got worm tea and put it all over the plants which have vitamins. Another group made pesticide which stops bugs eating the plants. In the kitchen we cooked pizza, preserved lemons, silver beat and cheese triangles, tahini cookies and fattoush salad.

Garden: In garden lessons there are 4 groups. I am in group 4. What we did was first cut 8 garlic cloves all together, than we cut 16 chillies. After we all cut them we put them in a cup and added boiling hot water and detergent. Once we had mixed it together we sprayed it on some plants. It was windy so half the spray went in our eyes. After we sprayed it we helped another group to get worm tea, which is worm pish. The lesson was nearly finished but before the bell went we talked about what we had done during that lesson.

Kitchen: In kitchen there are 5 groups I’m in group 2 we made silver beet and cheese triangle pastries. The ingredients that we used to make it were silver beet and cheese mixed together, pastry butter and egg. Then we put the silver beet and cheese mixture in it and then we folded it in the shape of a triangle. After that we put egg on top of it. I didn’t like the mixture so I made one with just pastry. After it was all cooked we sat down and ate everything. It is an amazing program.

 Toby L

Today   we had an exciting time in the garden. The weather was bright, sunny but a little bit chilly.All the groups had different activities. Our group had two activities. The first was to feed the chooks, collect the eggs and fill the water can in the chook’s pen.

The next activity was to tie  strings to the bean and attach it to the teepee. This will help the beans grow.The bean plant was flowering.

One of our questions was- “How come the Brussel sprouts that we used yesterday in the kitchen were very small and the leaves were kind of open?”