Kitchen Garden

Our chooks have arrived! 🐓🐓

Colleen Lomas kindly dropped off 4 beautiful, calm Isa Brown chickens to live in the chook enclosure. They are still a little shy at this stage, but have settled in well and are enjoying some lunch scraps from the children. It will be great to have their fresh eggs to use in our cooking activities.

I think we need some special names for the hens, so next week we’ll hold a bit of a competition for names. Have a think of some good ones with your child.

Last week in Kitchen garden the grades 3-5 harvested some of our zucchinis and made two batches of delicious zucchini rosti, which they were able to share with the whole school. They also enjoyed harvesting lots of tasty nashi pears and our prolific cucumbers.

This week, grade 4s planted some herbs and flowering companion plants. Once the grade 3s and 5s joined us, we cleared out and refreshed the nesting boxes in the chook shed, pulled out weeds, watered seedlings with Seasol and cleared the old fairy gardens out of the orchard.

Filling a wheelbarrow with straw, lifting it correctly, manoeuvring it around an obstacle course, backing up with it, and emptying it into the garden were all parts of the test for students to get their wheelbarrow licence. Congratulations to Ivy, Maddie, Rocco, Toby, Sybil, Edith, and Will who all passed the test.

Last week grade prep to 2 had a finger-licking good experience making home made lemon ice-cream. This allowed them to practice whipping cream, cracking eggs, grating zest, squeezing juice and measuring. There certainly wasn’t much left in the bowl by the time the dishes made it to the sink! The ice cream has been put in the freezer to wait for our last week of term.