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Te Kura

Te Kura at Pollard Park

Angela hosted a small group of enthusiastic Te Kura students in the Backyard Garden at Pollard Park at the beginning of the term. Thankfully Tamanuiterā had melted the frost and warmed the garden making it the ideal place to observe the changes in season and  investigate the types of vegetables that enjoy the cooler temperatures of autumn and winter.  They found spinach, broad beans, parsley, spring onions, kale, cauliflower, silver beet and beetroot, taste testing some of the leaves as they went.  They discovered that the tender young leaves of the broad beans can be eaten, these taste very similar to broccoli.  To their delight they also discovered eating enough of the leaves turns...

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Picton School garden

Building a Sustainable Community through Kai

Term 4 and 1 are always favourites in the Kids Edible Gardens calendar as there is so much to harvest.  There is nothing better than fresh peas, broad beans (and their leaves), crunchy lettuce and broccoli eaten in the garden.  School kitchens get a work out too – vegetable fritters and stir-fry’s are whipped up and lettuce wraps are folded. Apples cooked into crumbles or roasted potatoes have everyone’s mouth watering. As well as an oldie but a goodie, pikelets with cream and fresh berries from the garden. Once the children at Picton School have finished their gardening jobs they aim to deliver vegetables to the Picton School Kitchen to be used in their school...

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Kumara

Kumara planting at Bohally Intermediate

Students from the KEGs (Kids Edible Gardens) were keen to grow kumara to share with the school at their annual hangi next year.  It started a journey of discovery and learning as they prepared kumara to grow tipu in term 3. They joined forces with Reuben Molnar from Te Whatu Ora. He had worked with students from Marlborough Boys College growing kumara at the Marlborough Community gardens last year.  The boys harvested over 90 kg of kumara!  The Bohally School students were interested to hear from Reuben how they had used Māori Mātauranga that Reuben had learnt from mana whenua to grow their kumara. Unfortunately the method the Bohally School students had used to grow...

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Seed raising

Coffee and Cake workshop: KEGS – Seed raising

Keen to introduce more science concepts into your classroom?  Angela will share her tips and tricks to successfully raise seed with your students to transplant into your Kids Edible Gardens (KEGs). She will also cover the process of germination, what a seed looks like inside, some of the reasons why a seed may not germinate or survive to planting out stage as well as easy science experiments that explore plant growth. You will come away with a seasonal seed raising chart that includes beneficial flowers and herbs for companion planting.   Thursday 7 September 3.30 - 5 pm Join us early at 3.15 pm for coffee and cake before the mini workshop begins. Venue to be confirmed Email angela@wenties.nz to register...

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Compost Awareness Week

The 2023 International Compost Awareness Week (ICAW) theme is truly a collaborative and international effort. This year, we teamed up with the International Compost Alliance (ICA) to select: For Healthier Soil, Healthier Food…Compost! The theme was chosen based on a serious world-wide issue that every nation, unfortunately, experiences: hunger. https://www.compostfoundation.org/ICAW/ICAW-Home...

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Compost and Worms Workshop

Come along and learn about how to set up a successful compost or worm farm. Thursday 23th March Tua Marina School 3.30 – 5 pm.  Join us from 3.10 pm for coffee and cake before we start. To register please RSVP to Angela angela@wenties.nz...

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Term 1

Sustainable Action Ideas | Term One 2023

Our term one Sustainable Action Ideas newsletter explores the Enviroschools Guiding Principle of Respect for the Diversity of People and Cultures. It highlights some of the changes we have made to the delivery of the programme as well as some ideas for taking action. On page four you will also find this terms PLD opportunities and awareness dates. Click here to access our online Padlets to view this newsletter and previous ones....

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Building a Sustainable Community through Kids Edible Gardens

Initially organised for the beginning of the year to kick start our focus on Sustainable Communities, it was great to finally see this workshop take place in term 4.  Tamanuitera shone, though Tawhirimatea made his presence known, and we were able to start in the Kids Edible Gardens of Blenheim School talking about some of the companion plants we could see growing and nibbling on the new leaves of the prolific broad beans. Identify Getting down to the nitty gritty we identified what a Sustainable Community could look like.  We found that in building a Sustainable Community we are also building our hauora as we connect with nature and foster relationships with people around us.   Explore Kids...

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Outdoor Classroom Day

Outdoor Classroom Day

Outdoor Classroom Day is a global movement to make time outdoors part of every child’s day. On two days of action each year, teachers take children outdoors to play and learn. All year round, the Outdoor Classroom Day community campaigns for more time outdoors every day....

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Kids Edible Gardens Teacher workshop

Join Angela and Annie to explore what a Sustainable Community is and how Kids Edible Gardens can be used to build and support a Sustainable Community within your school and outside of your school gates. We will take a look at the resources within the Kids Edible Gardens Teacher Padlet and have fun taking part in a few of the classroom lesson plans. All teachers with classes participating in Kids Edible Gardens are welcome to join us whether they have worked with the KEG’s programme for a number of years or are new to it this year (or perhaps next year if planning is that far ahead). We know Term 4 gets hectic so we have...

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