Kitchen and Garden & Sustainability News
Kitchen
The Patch's abundance of tomatoes, basil and potatoes were used this fortnight for our hand-made Fettuccini with Tomato and Garlic Sauce, and Gnocchi with Burnt Sage and Butter Sauce. Yum! So much fun in the kitchen rolling and cutting our dough and needing and shaping our gnocchi. At our Shared Table there were many comments about feeling like we were in a restaurant, and they were spot on, we were so impressed with the quality of our Grade 4 and 6's pasta, it was delcious. We are always amazed at the culinary skills that are emerging in our growing chefs. And as we make our way into the term the Grade 6's will be refining these skills to compete in Annual Grade 6 Masterchef. We can't wait to see what they produce within our indigenous themed Masterchef at the end of this term.
We would love more volunteers in our classes. It is such a help as it greatly assists our students in their Kitchen Garden experience. Please view our Term 2 Timetable if you are free and would love to come along. Check out our Volunteer Info below. Thanks.
Check out our recipes at the bottom of our page for home cooking.
Special Women's Day Stall
Come and check out our Special Women’s Day stall (at front reception). There is a wonderful array of jams ($5-7), plants ($2-7) and our new fabulous Choccie Brownies in a jar ($10) made by our volunteers and Environment Club members. Some great gifts for all the special women in your life. Make sure you get to our stall soon so that you don’t miss out on these goodies.
Jam and Chutney Crew
We would love to start up a Preserving team who is available to come in a couple of times a term to whip up some jam or chutney at times of high harvest.
If you are interested in being part of this group, we would love to hear from you!
Please emailfleur.kilpatrick@education.vic.gov.au or clancey.mckenzie2@education.vic.gov.au
Garden News
The sun has been shining and out garden is pumping. Our tomatoes and finishing up and new crops of broccoli, kale, lettuce, carrots, leeks, garlic and peas have been planted. We have an abundance of silverbeet too.
our Creative Crew and Cats have been busy planting broad beans and also writing beautiful letters to their special women in their lives.
Seedling Foster Program
Our seedlings have started coming in and we are busy planting our next crop. Thank you to those who have nurtured their seedlings. If you are still looking after some sedlings, you can bring them in on Tuesday, Wednesday or Thursdays.
What is a seedling foster program you ask??!! Well, it is where the a class plants up some seeds during a garden session or lunch club and we ask school families to take these seed punnets home and 'foster' them, nurturing them until they are ready to bring back to school to plant.The best part is that your child doesnt have to be participating in the garden program to take advantage of this program, so that means even our foundation families can help out in the garden by 'fostering' some seedlings :)
We have developed an instruction and data sheet that will help you with looking after them and the children can also participate in the growing by documenting the plants growth and taking photos.I have attached a copy of the fostering form so that you can see how it all works and what is expected.It is such a fun way to continue learning at home for our students and you're also helping us to grow successful seedlings to plant out in The Patch.If you are interested in joining this fabulous new program, please come and see my in the garden or email me at clancey.mckenzie2@education.vic.gov.au
No experience in growing is necessary! If you are not sure, please please please reach out and I will help you through the process!!
Thanks for your support of the Kitchen & Garden Program
GARDEN WATERING HELP NEEDED
We are in need of some garden helpers please. You dont need to be a gardener you just need to want to help and have a spare hour or half hour to help. The weather has encourged the weeds to grow and also patches of the garden are a little dry where the sprinklers don't quite reach.
Please contact me if you can help in any way!
clancey.mckenzie2@education.vic.gov .au
Volunteer Information
We would love some more volunteers in our program to assit in our classes. Your assistance is so wonderful as it enhances our students experience in our kitchen and garden. Either email Fleur (kitchen) or Clancey (garden) or just show up on the day.
There are a few things that need to be ticked off before volunteering:
- Have your Working With Children Check https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/individuals/applicants/how-to-apply-1
- Complete a quick induction at the office prior to starting (around 5 mins) https://www.workingwithchildren.vic.gov.au/individuals/applicants/how-to-apply-1
- Please read our Child Safety Induction for Volunteers and attachments (either email Fleur or Clancey for these documents or have a look over on the day).
Recipes