Kitchen Garden

3/4R had finished their Kitchen Garden program at the end of term 2. During their last session, students got busy in the garden snail hunting, working on compost maintenance, feeding the worms, searching for good and bad garden critters and painting bug hotels. They also unpacked a Seasol prize pack which we won as part of an Instagram competition 'Grow It Local Awards'.

                          Kitchen Garden Composting

We collect the food scraps, daily, from every classroom in the school. The scraps are put into compost bins in the kitchen garden where, overtime, they breakdown into nutrient rich organic matter. The broken-down compost is spread onto the garden beds which makes our vegetables thrive. 

At home, you can help improve our kitchen garden composting system by peeling off and disposing of fruit stickers before putting fruit into lunch boxes. 

The stickers are plastic and will never breakdown, which means we spend a lot of time picking out fruit peel stickers from the garden beds.