4B Garden Fun!

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!

 

5B in the KG

On Friday the 19th of July we had our garden session. My group harvested carrots and then planted some more carrots. Once we planted the carrots we put llama manure and some straw around the carrot plants because it fertilizers the plant and helps keep water in the soil. The hardest part was separating the carrot seedlings because you had to be delicate so you didn’t break the seedling.

On Tuesday July 23rd we had our kitchen session. The menu was silver beet and cheese triangles, preserved lemons, pizza with potatoes, fattoush salad and tahini cookies. My group made the fattoush salad.

Fun in the Kitchen Garden 5B

CHICKEN MADNESS

On Friday the 7th of May, we had our first garden lesson with the chickens. Everyone was crowding around them, we all were so excited to meet them. After that, Julie explained what to do in the garden and we loved it. Also, everyone had a turn to go in to the chicken coop. The chickens seemed a little scared as the whole class tried to pick them up. It was fun and a great experience!

CRAZY KITCHEN

Every second Tuesday, we have a spectacular ‘kitchen garden’ lesson. We cook yummy foods. For example, pesto pasta, Pita with dips and julianne carrots, sring onion patties, and beans with fetta. It is a lot of fun, because we get to cook and eat the food, which makes it amazing. Some of the parents come to help us cook in the kitchen. We wonder what we will cook next fortnight.

Sian and Shosti 5B

Kitchen Garden Program

In the garden, the Year 4s and 5s plant and harvest fruits and vegetables.  We all can cook the foods in the kitchen and then we eat the food that we cooked. This week we made pasta with pesto, pita crisps with carrot and a dip, we also made spring onion patties. It was delicious.             

5B went to the garden when the chooks had arrived. Everyone was excited. We could not wait to go to the pen to meet and see them. We use the eggs that the chooks lay to cook with in the kitchen. The scraps and leftovers go directly to feed the chooks or into the compost, so nothing goes to waste.

By Scarlett and Blake 5B

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Cooking With Greens!

On Monday 3rd of June we had our kitchen class!

The menu was:

Fettuccine pasta which needed to get shredded before we could eat it. We made a basil pesto sauce that went with the pasta it was so delicious!

When we fried the spring onion patties you had to have golden and crispy sides. It was so yummy and CRISPY! We learnt that when you cut spring onions you can’t use the white part and the green ends.

Carrot, pita and a rocket and chickpea dip. The carrots were cut in a julienne style.

We wonder what we will produce in the kitchen next time!

Thank you to the volunteers for coming to the kitchen and helping us make the delicious food!

By Jaime and Jack from 5C

A very warm welcome to the start of the year

A very warm welcome to the start of the year and what a fabulous year it is going to be!

Over the summer months the garden has gone from strength to strength. The students were very excited to see that “the corn is over 1m high”, the stunning “sunflowers are standing super tall”, the tomatoes are turning “green to red”, there are plenty of capsicums to enjoy, “wow the cucumbers and so long and fat”, the large variety of flavoursome herbs and “carrots that are all funny shapes”!

During their garden classes students have started to harvest and cook with the a fore mentioned vegetables along with many others that are close to being ripe and full of flavour. The pumpkin and zucchini plants are crawling over the garden with many flowers and new fruits appearing. We say goodbye to our strawberries and hello to the honeydew and cantaloupes.
Students have re mulched and fertilised most of the garden beds and continued to plant more seeds for the autumn crop! They are enjoying diluting the worm juice to make worm tea and creating natural and organic pest sprays from regular kitchen pantry items. Students have started to recognise and document the various insects and arthropods. Students will soon make Scientific keys to help classify and group the different invertebrates.

Scientific understanding of soil composition and texture is vital for a successful garden. Students will soon learn how to test and alter the pH of the soil, determine soil permeability and continue to develop their indigenous garden to help prevent soil erosion.
Please remember to bring along, to your garden and/or Science lessons, bread ties, old stocking, egg cartons and old newspapers for recycling in our garden.

See you in the garden,
Julie

Another fun class

The year 4’s got an opportunity to plant carrots, put straw around the strawberries and water the seedlings.