Sustainability & Garden Club

Gardening Fun!

Our garden has exploded with goodness, ready to eat! Today, we harvested our first carrots! It was so exciting! Come along to Assembly tomorrow, and you can see them! Our bok choy plants are “going to seed” which means they are not growing lots of leaves for us to eat anymore but have exploded with yellow flowers! When the flowers die, we will take the seeds out and save them for us to grow next year! This is called “seed saving” and it’s a great thing to practice. In Gardening Club, students will learn the skills needed to sow and save seeds, which helps them to develop an understanding and appreciation for the entire life cycle of the plant. 

Next week we will be harvesting beetroot, silverbeet, chives and edible flowers. 

You are always welcome to ask your child to bring home some vegetables to cook - we may not always be able to harvest every week but we will do our best!

We would love to see any photos of our produce taken home being included in your dinner!  If you take a photo, please send to bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au.

Parent Volunteers

We would love more parent volunteers to help us in the garden. If you are available on either an occasional or regular basis Ms Belinda would love to hear from you.  Email bnechwatal@tcs.catholic.edu.au. We meet Thursdays 10.45-11.35am. Volunteers need to have a Working With Children Check. 

There are also jobs that can be done at any time, for example if someone knows how to best prune a lemon tree, your experience would be very welcome. 

Volunteers who can gently water our vegetable garden, are very welcome on days other than the Thursday (we water on Thursday when Miss Belinda is here). The vegetable gardens are located just outside the library, near the Prep and 1/2 classrooms. Students are welcome to use their water bottles or just ask Mrs Boffa in the office for the key to the shed to get a watering can. Our plants would really appreciated it! 

Things we need!

Wooden spoons - to make decorative plant labels for our vegetable gardens. Please leave at the office, labelled “Miss Belinda”. Thank you!

5/6 BO’C and 3/4 TR win Nude Food this week, with a MASSIVE 22 rubbish free lunches! Well done! 

They are followed by 3/4 MGwith 19, Prep CM with 14, 1/2 AO with 12 and 1/2 RT with 12. Well done!

Some yummy ideas - a sandwich/wrap/roll, pasta with vegetables, soup, frittata or sushi, a fruit or vegetable snack, such as whole fruit, cut up veggie sticks, fruit or savoury kebab or a small salad. 

There is a great booklet of ideas here 

NFM-RECIPES-BOOKLET-HQ.pdf - Nude Food Day

https://www.nudefoodday.com.au › 2016/08 › NFM...

Thanks everyone for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!

Have a great week everyone!

Ms Belinda with the Sustainability team Amy and Nathan

Thanks everyone for your great efforts in helping us live in a way that is kinder to our environment!

Have a great week everyone!

Ms Belinda with the Sustainability team Amy and Nathan