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With the Year Three and Four students out on an excursion this week, we welcomed the Year One and Year Two students back to the kitchen. These occasional sessions are a lovely way to introduce the Kitchen Garden program to the younger children and give them a taste of what’s to come in future years - literally!

This week we learned that some flowers in the garden are edible and others are not. We discussed how important it is to be sure which ones are safe to eat, and that if in doubt - don’t eat them. We used lavender, nasturtium, geranium and dianthus flowers. Edible flowers are used largely for their decorative qualities and with that in mind, we created some beautiful edible pieces of art in the form of simple floral decorated biscuits. The biscuit recipe is a traditional one which I grew up eating as they were my Dutch Mum’s “go to”. And her mother’s before that. They’re called “ Zandkoekjes” which translates as sand cookies. They don’t have a gritty texture so I’m bemused as to why!

Zandkoekjes