Growing our Own Vegetables

 This term, two new year 5 and 6 class started Garden to Table.  For some students this was there first time doing the programme so there was much excitement! 

For their first week, they made herby bread sticks, see in the dark ANZAC cookies and greens and cheese fritters. The recipes can be found HERE. 

This programme has been growing in popularity at our school so we made the decision to give ALL classes throughout the school some experience of Garden to Table. 

Why are we growing our own food? 

"It is fun"

" So you don't waste your money at the supermarket"

" So you know how to cook when you are older"

" It teaches us healthy food to make" 

" If we go to the shops we buy all the treat food and  don't want to the healthy stuff" 

" So we know what vegetables look like in real life"

" Because it's fresher and has no pesticides" 

This led into a discussion about growing your own food also being more sustainable.

 

Everyone had a turn at planting some seeds

   

We started to clear the garden bed of weeds

    
 

There is a LOT of weeds to clear! 

Now we need to remember to water our seeds each day.

Our year 2 classes have started doing some gardening this term. They planted radish and beetroot seeds, prepared the garden area by weeding and digging and learned to identify some different vegetables and herbs. All of these had come from our school garden; it included tomatoes, carrots, feijoas and herbs such as basil, parsley and thyme.  

We talked about where we would use these and what they smelt like.  Which was your favourite? 

We then talked about what we could make using some of these vegetables and herbs. Our ideas were salad, soup, curry and pizza.  

Later in the term we will use some garden produce to cook with.