Food Studies

Our School Vegetable Garden in the middle courtyard is blooming (regardless of the weather). We have lettuce growing, red, white, brown, and spring onions as well as leeks. Broad beans are climbing/flowering and rocket and silverbeet are green and flowing.

The Year Nines, who are my regular gardening crew, helped dig up a small crop of potatoes: some big ones in there!

We have utilised lettuce, silverbeet, spring onions, celery, potatoes and herbs/edible flowers from the garden in our food classes. The indigenous plants of Warrigal Greens, Geraldton Wax and Saltbush are being used in the current indigenous unit for Year 9’s. It’s so wonderful to show them the plants in the garden for them to appreciate how they grow. Their CAT - Design a Gourmet Hamburger must include some of our own and other indigenous ingredients e.g. kangaroo, pepperberry, bush chutney etc. It’s a challenge for the Year 9’s to think outside the square.

Year 8 & 10 students prepared, crudites, biscuits and souffles in their Food Studies classes.