Kitchen Garden

Wow! What a busy and productive couple of weeks we’ve had in our Kitchen garden program.

Last week, the Prep/1/2 class harvested loads of our summer fruits - apples, pears, nashis and rhubarb. Then it was into the kitchen to do lots of peeling, slicing and chopping, before putting them all into a big pot to stew, in preparation for this week’s community luncheon.

Grades 3/4/5 harvested some of our beautiful, fresh basil and made delicious pesto! We tried lots of new tastes through this process, with lemons being one of Billie’s favourites, Parmesan also being quite popular and toasted pine nuts being a big hit with nearly everyone! Some of the pesto was used in our pasta sauce this week’s community luncheon and some jars will be available for sale at our school stall at the Red Gum Festival. Make sure you call in and pick up some Kitchen Garden goodies.

A number of other class members navigated the obstacle course to get their wheelbarrow licence. Congratulations to Skye, Jaxon, Evie, Trav, Sienna and Max.

This week we needed to call in extra helpers to assist us in catering for our whole school community luncheon, and Marion Huf, Carly Behncke and Mady Kelsall came to the rescue. Everyone worked so co-operatively in our small space to produce a delicious range of food for over 80 people! Thanks also to the Luhrs family for providing eggs.

From our garden we used lettuces, cucumbers, capsicum, tomatoes, basil, and all the fruit we stewed. Our menu included cucumber and mint dip, zucchini and carrot rosti, pasta with pesto or tomato sauce, zucchini slice, salad of the imagination, banana bread, stewed fruit crumble and lemon ice cream. The children have been waiting patiently and excitedly to finally get to gobble the lemon ice cream that they made three weeks ago!🍋🍋🍋

It was wonderful to have so many family and friends join us as well as the Kinder kids Extra special for Edith to have four generations of her family, with dad Michael, Nanna Vick ad great grandma Joan all sharing the feast with her.

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A big thank you must go to Bunnings for their support of our program through provision of a very generous and useful pack of gardening products this week. Bags of potting and seed raising mix, hoses, timers, buckets, watering cans, sprayers, plant ties and gardening gloves were all included amongst the goodies provided.