Kitchen Garden News

Our kitchen menu has been modified these past weeks as the kitchen dining room is out of action. Students are doing double garden sessions with some cooking involved. Half have prepared food in the staffroom to share with their classmates while the others have spent time doing activities in the garden and new art room. 

We have enjoyed making two different types of damper, Wattleseed and Native Spinach. To accompany the damper the students made warrigal greens pesto and golden syrup butter. Check out the attached Stephanie Alexander Foundation recipes to make your own at home. We followed the parsley pesto recipe but replaced pine nuts with pepitas and parsley with a mixture of herbs and warrigal greens which is a native spinach we have growing in the garden.

The weather is superb for gardening at the moment. We have spent time watering the new indigenous plants that were planted at the last working bee. Please remember to keep out of the garden beds to ensure they get the best chance to grow and thrive. Retrieve your basketballs carefully.

Students have been weeding and caring for the chickens. The chickens enjoy eating chickweed, dandelions, clovers and grasses. Thankfully the chickens are laying eggs again. If you are available to help look after the chickens on a Thursday or Saturday, please sign up using this link;

The students have also begun preparing the soil along the fence line, ready to plant some native everlasting flowers which will hopefully add some colour to the front of the school for years to come!

Thanks to all our parent and community helpers who have still given up their time to support us cook and garden. The students are participating in a mixed cooking and garden session each fortnight, so we are still looking for volunteers (Working with Children's Check required)

. Please sign up to help in our sessions at;