Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden 

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden with 3/4D

The five weeks with 3/4D have gone extremely well and the students are becoming proficient gardeners and chefs.  We have worked hard in the garden to plant a variety of spring vegetables such as cucumbers, silverbeet, beetroot, capsicum, tomatoes, snow peas and lettuce. 

Last year when we were awarded one of the Best Edible Garden awards, I received $1000 to purchase more plants at Diacos nursery.  In addition to buying some Native Edible Bush Tucker plants, I purchased more fruit trees for our orchard.  Unfortunately, our current orchard is quite full, so our wonderful maintenance man Rod cleared the space near the sheds and we have put them there.   Their beautiful spring blossoms have started flowering and I hope in the future they bring lots of yummy fruit the students will be able to enjoy in the kitchen.  Our compost bays have also been busy and we have used some of the nutrient rich soil the worms have created to top up our vegetable gardens.  We are so lucky all these food scraps get turned into dark brown, beautiful soil.  

Thanks to the beautiful Mums and Nannas for helping us with 3/4D. They have been Nana (Leon’s Mum), Jess (Christopher’s Mum), Rosie (Lewis’ Mum), Sherry (Jeremy’s Mum), Sharn (Mimi’s Mum) and Rita (Max’s Nanna). If you would like to help 3/4D in the kitchen, please message me via Seesaw. 

Arigatou!

Mrs Tammie Siegert

Student Reflections:

Today I made bread and I made basic bread with honey! I had fun with the dough! I hope everyone had a great time at the SAGKP!  By Max

Today we made zucchini bread. It was so fun! Me and my friend Elly peeled and grated the zucchinis like queens and my other friend Evie cracked the eggs like superstars. We  all had so much fun!  By Kiarah

Today in cooking we made some dip but it is made out of peas and cheese and also garlic. I had lots of fun cooking. I can’t wait for next year because we have 3 more weeks!  By Aliyah 

Today I made zucchini bread. It was so fun. I cracked the eggs and showed my friends how I cracked them one handed. They were shocked. It was so funny to see them in shock. Kiarah and Elly were grating and peeling the zucchini. We all had so much fun today it was unreal.  By Evie

This week I did the dip and it was really fun and the carrots were really hard to cut.  By Chaneli

I grated zucchini.  I mixed eggs. I washed and dried dishes. I  cracked eggs.  By Tristian

 I got to cut cherry tomatoes and did the salad and I also cleaned up! By Lyliana

I cut tomatoes. We made a salad. I mixed food together like tomatoes.  By Lewis

It was actually a nice time.  Today we made greek salad.  I crunched feta and cut tomatoes, cucumbers and spring onions.  I enjoyed it.  Thank you for your time. By Taesha

I made the main meal  today. We made potato soup. I love cooking. It is the best! By Lyiana

What I did is I cut cauliflower and onions and I bought the compost bin. I put the worm food where it goes and I peeled the potatoes.  By Lewis 

Today we made Greek Salad and it looked so good!  My mummy came in today and it was so much fun she helped us make it.  It looked like the salad in tv shows.  By Milena 

Today in cooking we made Greek Salad. Mimi’s mum came and helped and it was so much fun! I had fun cutting the slices.  By Aalyiah