It’s Israel’s 68th birthday! To celebrate this wonderful day, the whole school is dressed in blue and white and enjoying a packed schedule of fun, laughter, film, music and learning. The morning began with an assembly for the Primary, Middle and Senior Schools, where the Year 10 class performed their traditional flag dance. Students participated in activities such as Israeli themed arts and crafts, Israeli dancing, make humus not war, as well as ‘Limmud Bialik’ – sessions with guest speakers to spark debate, insight and a deep understanding of Zionism and Judaism. There were games, concerts and, of course, a delicious lunch of falafel and shwarma. 

Is it a pickle? Is it a green boomerang? No it’s a flying squash!!! Soaring over the chook pen in a wrestling match with the passionfruit vine!!!!

THIS HUGE (50cm wide) SQUASH IS NOW IN OUR TUMMIES! We turned it into yummy brown rice squash balls – to check out all of our recipes click on the “recipe” tag at the top, in the middle of this page.

Bella Black

AND IT IS HANGING FROM A TREE!?

The pumpkin looks like a big U.F.O AND IS DARK GREEN!.

Come and check it out in the garden today it is worth it!

Go to the compost piles (opposite the hothouse) and it is just past there near the track and the indigenous garden!

This self seeded pumpkin plant is definitely showing who is boss by taking over this deciduous tree on the boundary of the garden fence. There is a pumpkin growing 2m above the ground in the tree!!!!!!

pH 7 with in neutral in garden 22 – no action required

Felix is helping me learn how to pick up a chook.

I try on my own the key is to hold the wings tight without hurting the chook. Otherwise the wings will flap in your face.

Soil is very dry, Moisture 5, so we watered
P.H 2
21 degrees in soil

OrganicGardening.InMySanctuary.Net   A fabulous website with lots of organic gardening tips.

At the moment we are studying how to get rid of the White Cabbage Moth. We have got many great tips from this weblink – http://organicgardening.inmysanctuary.net/wordpress/2013/05/white-cabbage-butterfly/

This is a female because there are two spots on each front wing and the male has one.