Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden 

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden 2025

For the last fortnight 3/4 M have been the second class involved in the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program.  Last week they coloured and created their placemats which we will use for the entire seven weeks of the program.  The students loved adding their artistic flair to the designs.  

This week in the garden we got to work and planted a lot of lettuce seedlings, some purple cauliflower, broccoli and garlic.  Hopefully over the holidays these new seedlings will get lots of sun and water and give the garden a real boost in produce. 

For the last two weeks of cooking, the recipes have needed to include pumpkin.  Our pumpkin patch is in overdrive and we are growing an abundance which is wonderful.  Last week we made pumpkin fritters and this week we made pumpkin and spinach pasta bake.  We also got a special little dessert last week that included fresh rhubarb from the garden.  These were Rhubarb and Lemon Muffins.  They were so yummy!

Thanks to the wonderful volunteers who in two weeks have given up their time to help us. These people have been Jeff (Annabelle’s Dad), Sharu (Sienna’s Mum), Marg (Charlie’s friend), Wendy (Naomi’s Mum), Melinda (Aaliyah’s Mum), Mandy (Charlie’s Godmother) and Lily (Lannah’s Mum).  I hope you all have a happy and safe holiday in the beautiful Autumn weather. 

Arigatou! 

Mrs Tammie Siegert

Favourite Recipe:

Student Reflections:

I thank you for helping us Lilly, Melinda and Mandy for helping us make our bread rolls. That is why I am thanking you.  By Lannah

I loved cooking a lot.I like cooking and how good it tastes and enjoying it and also to respect the food mostly. I learnt how to cook bread scrolls.

In cooking I made salad. I cut tomatoes and washed them with Jeremy and cut up cucumber and my smelly onion. It made my eyes water.  I was with Nicki Sensei and Sophia, Jeremy , Josh and Miller also don't forget me. I wiped down the table.

Today we made Bread Rolls with our group, Tomatoes. Our helpers for today were my mum, Lannah’s mum and Charlie’s godmother.  By Aaliyah 

Today I made the salad, and in the salad there is cucumber, tomato and onion. And when I cut the onions I was the only one on the table who didn’t cry. By Sophia

Today my group made the salad my Job was peeling the garlic and shredding it, after that I cut some cucumber.  By Joshua

Today we made the main meal. The main meal was pasta with pumpkins, spinach, olive oil and other ingredients. It was  fun making it. I learnt how to  cut pumpkins and hold knives.  By Matthew

Today in SAKGP I made the main meal  and it was fun. We made pasta with these ingredients: pumpkins, cheese, olive oil, spinach and a lot more ingredients. We had to cut the pumpkin and it was really hard. And the cheese was the easiest. And now I know how to cut pumpkins. I learnt how to cook pasta.By Anesh 

Today in SAKGP we made bread scrolls, pumpkin and spinach pasta bake, eggplant dip and cucumber, tomato and onion salad. My group made the bread scrolls,  all the helpers were Jeff, Melinda, Sharu, Wendy, Lilly and Mandy. We washed our hands A LOT of times.  By Naomi

Today in 3/4/M,  we were cooking. I made the salad and the onion made me cry. I cut tomatoes! By Jeremy