Garden to Table with Room 3 & 6

 When life gives you lemons... make LEMONADE! ... and lemon muffins, lemon bliss balls and lemon cake!  Or just cut up and eat the lemons as they are! 

Room 3 and Room 6 have had a wonderful 5 weeks of Garden to Table making many different dishes using the lemons and the winter veggies from the garden. They have made: 

• Chop suey 

• herby breadsticks

• pumpkin curry 

• air fryer cauliflower 

• corn fritters 

• kumara scones

Growing and decorating gourds was also a new, interesting experience for the students. 

Our most popular recipes can be found on this blog under the 'Garden to Table & Recipes' tab.  

There's more recipes linked in the text too. Can't find the recipe you're after? Just ask Victoria or Miss Long for it. 

Our great big GARDEN TO TABLE BAKE SALE!

Our long awaited BAKE SALE is finally here! 

This year we had Room 2 (year 6) and Room 5 (year 4/ 5) baking during their sessions and then helping to sell at lunchtime. 

There was a great buzz from the whole school about what treats they wanted to buy! 

Our top sellers, as always, were the beetroot brownie and herby breadsticks. 

We collected in $683! 

We are looking to update some of our kitchen equipment using this money. 

prep time!

setting it all up

Kumara Season!

This week at Garden to Table we celebrated a milestone:

harvesting the first of our kumara for the season!

David and the senior students had worked hard creating an excellent

new kumara bed, and we are hoping for a great crop this year!

Before the harvest, we said a karakia (blessing). Following tradition, the first harvest of kumara is presented to a respected elder,

and this honour was given to Mrs Hurley.

This tradition reflects practices that many Māori growers still follow:

• Begin harvest with karakia

• Respect Rongo-mā-Tāne

• Keep first-fruit traditions in some form

• Emphasise careful handling and curing

Room 5 and Room 2 have been busy the last few weeks!

Other exciting activities they have been doing include:

• The great compost bucket race! 

• Building Bliss Ball snowmen

• Eating lots of juicy greens from the garden in our veggie pasta

• Getting a good dose of Vitamin C with the first of our lemons

• Discovering carrots can be RED!