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Monday 20 February 2017

Potato and Corn Fritters

Today was the first session of cooking for 2017. Our Year 7 / 8's had a training session last week and they did a great job passing on the skills and keeping the Juniors safe as they cooked.

The fritters tasted a bit like baked potatoes off a camp fire.... Yummy!!

The Junior students enjoyed flipping fritters and talking with the Seniors.










Thursday 16 February 2017

Food Forest mulching...

The Year 4 students sprung into action today to spread peastraw around our food forest. We learnt about what seeds need, and how we can stop weeds... we had some very interesting ideas about how we could block the sun to the weeds and how to stop the peastraw blowing away. There was some great active thinking happening.... and some VERY lateral thinking too.

In the end we decided peastraw would be the best and water would be a good way to stop it from blowing away.

Now we just need to dig over the edge bed to grow some silverbeet for the chickens to snack on. 

Great work Year 4's

Garden Club

The garden is back in full swing sorting out the pumpkin patch. The chickens loved all these weeds, Thanks for all your help team!!

Thursday 2 February 2017

Seed harvesting - Year 4 Hub

Today was the day of the great seed collection by the Year 4 Hub from our  Food Forest. Our students looked carefully at the different plants to make sure that we collected the right seeds. We found lots of poppy, borage, yarrow and red clover to keep our bees happy next year.  We have made envelopes and labelled these to keep our seeds safe till Spring.

The Year 4's spent a lot of time thinking about why we need bees in our garden.

After we had collected enough seeds Mr McAven weed ate all of the plants down ready for the next stage of the process which will happen in a fortnight.