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December 2016

So while the 2016 school year has come to an end, the 'food year' is only just beginning! All of the tomatoes are flowering and growing...

How exciting to find a witcheddy grub pupal shell! Generally, they live about 600mm underground and feed on the roots of trees like...

Autumn is a great time in the garden; growth is slowing down, there is more time for planning crops and it's easier to hunt for...

At the end of last term, grade 3/4 students learned about the wonderful Brassica 'family.' This includes broccoli; cabbage, cauliflower,...

WoW! The climbing beans have been a really heavy cropper! Every second day they produce two four litre buckets of strong, fresh, crisp,...

The pumpkin patch has been a great source of wonder for the students. Size, colour and failures have all been in conversations. This...

This is such a lovely time of year in the garden; lots of veggies to pick, some crops finishing and the weather is a bit kinder to the...

As the warm season in nearing the end, daily photo's of the melons are important to show that they are trying to put on weight! The one...

We FINALLY harvested the giant zucchini (earmarked for seed saving) today! Much to the delight of the recess Green Team! The zucchini now...

This nut free, dairy free yummy loaf is an easy lunchbox idea! 2 cups of SR flour 2/3 cup firmly packed brown sugar 1 cup of coarsely...