Roast Potatoes with Year 2

 

Digging the potatoes out.

 

 Collecting the potatoes

Sorting the potatoes

Counting the potatoes. Planted 25 potatoes and harvested close to 400.

 

Cutting the potatoes  

 Adding some rosemary from the garden.

 

Yummie - enjoying the potatoes.

Herb pizzas with Kindy and Year 1

Puff pastry with olive oil/tomato sauce, cheese and freshly harvested herbs from the garden (oregano, parsley, chives, thyme, rosemary)

Vietnamese Rice Rolls with Year 5

 Proud harvesters of a big beetroot and green pepper.

 

 Grating red cabbage 

Grating and chopping

 Making rice rolls - look at all the beetroot and veggies!

Newsletter Term 4 Week 6

Solar Eclipse: Did you know there will be a solar eclipse on Wednesday November 14th ? We still have a few solar viewing glasses for $2 each, left over from the fete. Please see Miss Scanlon if you would like to purchase.

Cooking Days: The EcoGarden team is busy cooking up a storm this week. On Monday Year 5 had fun making Vietnamese spring rolls with the produce from the garden. This Friday Kindy an Year 1 will be making Herb Pizzas – Yum!

Eco Friendly Cleaning Products

The HHPS Eco Food Garden will be selling some exciting eco friendly cleaning products at the school fete on Saturday 3 November. Our stall will be near the animals so please come by and say hi.

Products for sale:
Bamboo eco friendly toothbrushes (children & adults)
500ml multi-purpose cleaning spray
500g Laundry Powder

Newsletter Term 4 Week 4

The ecogarden is looking absolutely fabulous especially after the working bee which was held on Saturday. Thank you to everyone who gave up their time to help clean up the garden beds. Make sure to pop in and have a look at the garden, the chickens and the lambs while you are at the Bushland Fair this weekend. There will even be an Ecogarden stall selling some environmentally friendly goods!

Mr Green the Gecko says ...

Have you ever considered setting up a worm farm? You add peelings to the worm farm just as you would a composter. The worms will appear and break down your peelings into small amounts of garden compost. You can then use this compost as top dressings for your container plants.

Mr Green the Gecko says

Did you know that if you replant the top of beets, onions and carrots, they will grow a new plant for you again? The new root won’t be as pretty as the original but regrowth will be much faster than if you started from seed.

Newsletter Term 4 Week 2

New Planting:
Make sure you check out the new spring planting in the gardens. Looking forward to some exciting
new crops!

Thank you: 
A big thank you to the Cameron and Hazell families for looking after the animals during the holidays. Burt and Ernie had a lovely holiday in the Cameron’s backyard.

Working Bee: 
The next working bee is scheduled for Saturday 27th October. We are hoping to get the garden ready before the Bushland fair.

Next Meeting: 
The next ecogarden meeting is Tuesday 16th October, 7:00pm in Miss Scanlon’s room.

Mr Green the Gecko says ...

Mr Green Says: Have you ever considered growing an olive tree? The olive tree is the oldest cultivated tree in existence and can live for thousands of years. It can survive poor soils, with little water, and its hard, thin leaves are adapted to prevent water loss, so it's an extremely hardy and forgiving tree.

Newsletter Term 3 Week 10

Thank You: A big thank you to everyone who helped and donated cakes for the election day cake stall. Approximately $1150 was raised for the ecogarden. What a superb effort!

Newsletter Term 3, Week 8

Lambs
Welcome to our two new lambs – Burt and Ernie. They have been a huge hit at school!

Environment Day
What a day! Thank you to everyone who contributed to Environment Day last Friday. The students  thoroughly enjoyed participating in all the activities and a grand total of $849.25 was raised on the day. This day would not have been possible without the help of many ecogarden volunteers.

Tiles
If you have any coloured tiles that you would like to donate to a mosaic project for the garden please send them up to Miss Scanlon’s room.

Election Cake Stall
This Saturday (8th September) the Ecogarden team will be holding a cake stall at the school for Election Day. We would love as many cakes/slices as possible to make the stall a success. If you can help on the day of the stall could you please contact Petra.