The children were busy in the school garden planting seedlings, weeding, composting and giving the garden a general clean up. The children were delighted to learn about companion planting, aerobic composting and slug defenses from Jessica and they were even more delighted to get stuck into the gardening – the weeds didn’t stand a chance!
It has been a busy week in the school garden. The children have cleared the vegetable beds and turned over the soil ready for the seedlings that we are growing in the classroom. We have also set a couple of rows of potatoes.
It’s hard to imagine that this time last year we had a lot of frost and snow! It was lovely to see the early spring flowers during a visit to the school garden today.
The children were busy in the kitchen this week making chocolate and beetroot brownies. We harvested the organically grown beetroot from our school garden recently and Jessica from the Heritage Council helped the children with this delicious recipe. It was also the perfect opportunity to develop practical maths skills.
The children have been preparing for Halloween by carving some pumpkins.
We were delighted to harvest these two wonderful, organically grown, pumpkins from our school garden to make our pumpkin soup.
Fifth and sixth class made delicious pumpkin soup and brown bread today.
Pumpkin Soup
Serves 6
Preparation Time: 15-30 minutes.
Ingredients
750g pumpkin, diced
250 g potatoes, diced
3 medium onions, diced
3 chicken stock cubes, crumbled
840ml water
250 ml thickened cream
Salt
Pepper
Method
1. Place all ingredients, except cream in a large saucepan.
2. Simmer until vegetables are tender.
3. Remove from the heat.
4. Blend with a stick blender until smooth.
5. Add cream and stir through (do not boil after adding cream).
6. Season to taste.
It was time to enjoy the fruits (and vegetables) of our labour. The children enjoyed bowls of delicious vegetable soup made from the vegetable harvest grown in the school garden.
It was a busy time in the kitchen as the children washed and chopped our crop of vegetables to make a large pot of delicious soup.
We have been looking at our crop of vegetables for the last four weeks – licking our lips and keenly anticipating the harvest. Jessica from the Heritage Council called this week to organise the harvest, help prepare the vegetable soup (the important bit) and get the vegetable garden ready for the winter.
