Sustainability    

NARANGA SCHOOL’S NEW INDIGENOUS GARDEN

Last term I visited the Koori club during lunchtime to meet Maree the project manager and Sean the Koori club facilitator to discuss suitable edible plants for the new garden. Sean looked over the garden area and using a design plan suggested the following plants: Warrigal green (like spinach), Seaberry saltbush, Sea celery, River mint, Atriplex cinerea, Chocolate lily and Vanilla lily, Murrnong and Apple berry. I ordered thirty-six Indigenous plants from Willum Warrain nursery in Hastings. Maree said that she will organise plant information into a booklet to help Naranga staff know how to use the plants in cooking sessions. 

Monday 24th November Koori students: Alexis, Anthony, Axel, Gabriella, and Scarlett worked with Sean and Naranga staff to plant most of the seedlings into the garden beds. Some plants can tolerate full sun and other plants like the Apple berry plants need part shade. Students planted them in between our fruit trees. Pathways Sustainability students will plant the rest of the seedlings on Thursday. Students will keep the water up to the plants over the next few weeks until the plants settle in and then they will be happily 

growing during the school holidays.