Love this quote

Why try to explain miracles to your kids when you can just have them plant a garden. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com.

GAthering materials for making compost tea

Compost tea on PhotoPeach

Michael, Sophia, Claudia, Maree and Mrs C went to Riding for the Disabled at Silverstram to collect horse poo for our school compost. We also went to Petione Beach to collect seaweed to make compost tea. On the way back to school we bought two bog drums to put the manure and w=seaweed into to make the compost tea.

"When we plant trees, we plant the seeds of peace and seeds of hope." - (Prof. Wangari Maathai, 2004 Nobel Peace Prize Laureate)

Here is a unicef link that aims to promote food security.  http://thegreatnzedibleschoolgarden.wikispaces.com/Fruit+Bearing+Trees
  It has a section where schools can add their own garden stories to the wiki pages.  Lots of good content for learning about food security.

Look how our garden is growing

It is exciting to see our garden growing. The daffodils are looking great and the peas are starting to climb up the netting.

Sunflowers and Beans

Our seeds have sprouted and a re growing quickly. The sunflowers are growing about 1 cm per day. We are waiting for a visit from our buddy class, Room 9 so we can measure them together.

Here is one of the sunflower seeds which is just starting to sprout. The Niche seeds have sprouted more quickly than the Ecoseeds.

The bean seedlings are looking great as well. They will need to go out into the garden soon.

Sunflowers for summer

Today we joined our buddies, Room 9 and planted sunflower seeds. These are giant sunflowers and we will measure them as they grow.

We filled the containers with Tui seed raising mix and then put the seeds in. We watered them after they were planted. It will take between 5 and 10 days for them to sprout.

Planting around the dental clinic

Here are the palms which we are going to plant around the dental clinic.

We have to climb down the bank and then dig the holes. Mikaela removes a plant from its pot and then plants it.

We have planted 30 palms, a job well done. Time to head back to class.