Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden (SAKG)

This week in the Garden

This week was very exciting as Natalie from Notting Hill, Bunnings, came to school for our session, bringing along seedlings to plant, soil to top up another bed, a fantastic new retractable hose, 2 secateur sharpeners and lots of new children's gloves. We are so lucky to have all this donated to our school. Natalie stayed and showed the children how they needed to prepare the new bed before we could plant. They worked alongside her digging, planting, mulching and watering in the new seedlings. The students are very proud of what was achieved. For the kitchen we harvested more of our lovely basil, lettuces, mint and the Italian squash called Tromboncino, a very interesting vegetable indeed! A future project is to fence around the garden to stop students running through it and damaging our wonderful produce. Thanks again to Natalie and Bunnings, we have all we need to complete this work! How fantastic is this! Our wonderful Mr Noordhoff has offered to coordinate the building of the fence project, with our help. Exciting times ahead!

Please call in to look at our emerging garden.

This week in the Kitchen

We have busy in the kitchen using the fresh produce grown in the garden and discovering new types of vegetables we haven't seen before!

Have you heard of tromboncinos?

We were expecting cucumbers to grow but instead some interesting looking zucchini type of vegetable was emerging... what on earth were they? Zucchinis? Pumpkins?

Our previous garden specialist, Mrs Hayes came to the rescue... when I showed her a photo, she became very excited and said they were tromboncinos!

We have made our own pizza dough and used our fresh basil to top it off.

Because tomato and basil are perfect partners, we had a Caprese salad with juicy tomatoes, bocconcini and basil leaves, dressed in olive oil.

This week, we turned our hand to making fresh pasta, made a tomato and basil sauce from scratch and pan fried the tromboncino... hmmm, delicious! Each bowl and plate was scraped clean.