At Garden to Table recently we celebrated Chinese New Year by making dumplings and chocolate sesame seed biscuits.
They were delicious! We even made enough to offer some round at the enviro cluster meeting which was the same day after school.
We are always looking at ways to be more sustainable, and Nigel, from Pest Free Howick set up a clever calculator that could work out how we can reduce our school carbon footprint by growing our own food to eat.In our dumplings we grew and used:
- spring onions
- carrots
- cabbage
- garlic
- garlic chives and regular chives.
- ginger (shop bought)
Some of these items were harvested in the school holidays and frozen.
We did buy the dumpling wrappers and soy sauce. We made about 160 dumplings.
By using lots of food we had grown ourselves rather than buying it we reducing the carbon that would've been involving in growing, storing and transporting it to us.
Our carbon saving was the same as:
- 20 mature trees absorbing CO2 for a whole year
- Driving a petrol car for 100km in New Zealand
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