5C’s Garden experiences

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Garden

So far at Garden this year, we have been doing different fun jobs to help our garden grow. We have been learning about nurturing and caring for our seedlings and fully grown plants. Learning about this can help us figure out how to keep our plants safe so we have fresh crops to harvest and use in the Kitchen e.g. we use cracked egg shells to stop snails from eating our plants, and we use the whites and the yolk in kitchen. A lot of things we use in the Kitchen are from the garden that we have harvested in previous lessons. We shouldn’t completely rely on foods from markets near us because we are lucky to have such a wonderful garden. We have changed from our younger selves due to garden, as more responsibility has been put on us. In our garden beds, we have been planting seedlings of many different sizes which will eventually grow into strong, vibrant plants. We haven’t been doing this all on our own-we have parents and teachers to help us who are very generous, however, we would extremely appreciate more parents to volunteer!

 

 

 

We love growing potatoes!!!

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Growing potatoes is a lot more complex than you think! You get a potato and wait until it gets eyes, which is a white sprout that comes out of the potato. When you see this it means it is ready to come out of the ground. If you leave it to grow eyes for longer, you’ll see these BIG brown balls which are the start of new potato plants!!!! Each potato can have up to 6 eyes -so up to six new potato plants!!! We berry the potato eyes at least 50cm to ensure they have lots of space to underground to grow potatoes.

5B Our Fabulous Garden

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Our Garden Beds!

This year, each group in the garden has their own garden bed! Our garden bed is next to the pizza oven. We are choosing our own plants that go into the beds! Ours are-  sunny sunflowers, cabbagey cabbage, smelly spinach, yummy spring onion and loveable lettuce which we have planted to grow, harvest and then eat in our kitchen lessons.

We love our chooks!!

One of the best things of the kitchen garden is that we have three pet chickens to help us with the eggs! Every garden lesson, we collect the scraps from the canteen and feed it to them but don’t feed them the eggshells. We each get turns to feed them and take care of them in our groups for garden.

 

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Bialik Kitchen Garden Program theme song  

Please click on the below link to listen to the Year 6 Bialik Vocal Ensemble singing the Bialik Kitchen Garden Program theme song. This catchy song promotes food and nutrition and was written by Julian Duband, one of our key music teachers. The song was recorded in the Bialik studio with sound engineer, Tim Spargo; all instruments are played digitally  using Logic Pro.

Bialik Kitchen Garden Program theme song

The below photo was taken at the launch of Bialik Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program the song was performed by Junior Choir lead by Audrey Fine. We hope you enjoy the music.

 

4B Garden Fun!

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All our groups had our tasks explained to us in the beginning, then away we went! One exciting thing we had never done before was planting carrots. We never knew that the seeds were all on a string and we planted them 1 cm deep. We covered the seeds with soil and  we watered them with worm tea. Some of us cut off the big leaves from the pumpkin plants. The leaves take away all the nutrients so when the big leaves are cut off the pumpkin will grow much bigger.

We planted lettuce and then covered them with plastic bottles. We cut off some long celery stalks which will be used in the kitchen. The chooks were fed and we gathered 3 eggs. We were to put the kitchen scraps inside the chook pen and overgrown brussels sprout plants behind the pen. Some of us put the brussels sprout plants inside the pen! The chooks were not amused!

 

Kitchen Garden

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Yesterday, Monday the 24th of February 2014, 4A had a garden class.  I’m in group one and we did a few tasks.  First we fed the chooks and took out egg shells, tea bags, citrus and avocado pips.  Next we collected the eggs that the chooks laid.  Then we refilled the chooks’ water.  After we got some seeds for some stringless beans and planted them along the fence.  During the process we did some weeding and put the weeds in the compost and tumbled it.  It was extremely fun.

The next day we had kitchen.  We got our groups.  We made salad with carrot, cucumber, lettuce, tomato, avocado and capsicum.  The other groups made hummus, tomato sauce pasta, apple and beetroot muffins and tomato, basil and fetta tarts.  My group finished first so we set the table.  It was a delicious meal, so filling that I did not need to have my recess snack.

Garden

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20/2/2014   – Our Bed Number 18
Today we planted five carrots and one beetroot in our garden we pulled out a lot of sage because it was dominating our whole bed we did not measure temperature because we were to busy harvesting sage. The sunflowers and capsicums that we planted last week were looking fantastic because of the great weather throughout the past week the sunflowers were approximately 10cm and as yellow as a butterfly’s wing. In these photos you will see a lot of sage sunflowers carrots and beetroot.

Kitchen garden reflection

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25/2/14
During our first kitchen lesson, my mum came to help out. Our group was saucing the tomatoes. The reason being, that tomatoes are in season now and we had heaps of them, and also because we were thinking ahead. If we were going to make the sauce now, that meant that, it will be ready for when we want to use it. The exercise was SOO much fun !! We got tomato EVERYWHERE !!!!!!!!!!! We managed to fill four and a half bottles full of tomato sauce!! At the end, when we finally got to eat I was very impressed with today’s menu. Although we didn’t eat the sauce that we made I was really proud of all the other groups. There was tomato, feta and basil tarts (yum!!), there was vegetable rice (also yum!!), there was a quinoa salad with chickpeas, and apple and Beetroot muffins. Today’s lesson was awesome and I can’t wait until next lesson.

2014 and the Kitchen Garden Program in Full Swing

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An incredibly warm welcome to 2014!!! The garden just gets bigger and better, as do the incredible smells and flavours from the student kitchen!

Over the summer months the garden has survived the extreme heat – probably better than some of us!! The students are very excited to see “the pumpkins plants going crazy and the pumpkins already so big!” The stunning “sunflowers are standing super tall”, the tomatoes are turning “green to red” the large variety of flavoursome herbs and “beetroots that are bigger than a softball”. We start to say goodbye to our strawberries and hello to apricots- yum!

Students continue to enjoy making their own pasta and tasty pasta sauces – kale pesto this fortnight! They will make salads of their imagination, all sorts of breads and pastries, pickled cucumbers and bottle tomatoes, just to name a few! All recipes can be found on this blog – enjoy!