The garden roster

 This is the garden roster. 

Garden Sign Up So Far

For break Times me Toby and Anika have been organising a rooster. For Tane Mahuta,Papatuanuku and Tawhirimatea. Our group has about Fifty children. They have been helping out with planting our Eco action natives. 

                                  The Leaders at play times

We only have about a hundred or so more until we have completed all of our eco action natives. We have also recently required 5 new trees. One Nectarine, One apricot and three apples. 

                                           

                                                     Freya 

                               We have just made a Orchard and vegetable sector.   

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Edible Trees

A few weeks ago we got some new trees from an organisation called edible trees. We got five trees the trees we got were 3 cooking apples 1 Apricot and 1 Nectarine. Now the whole back of the garden is the orchid now. It is a bit of a mess over there at the moment but we plan to tidy up soon. 

Welcome back for 2021

 Hi everyone,

Welcome back for another year at Rawhiti. The garden certainly liked our new watering system over the holidays, we came back to weeds as high as some of the trees! In amongst all of the weeds though was an amazing crop of fruit. Our apple trees, pear trees and plum trees were heaving with fruit

Over the last week we. have been concentrating on tidying up and harvesting our crop. As you can see there are lots of apples and plums with lots of peaches, pears and feijoa to come. Our next mission is to find tasty recipes for thee fruits plus all of the potatoes we dug up last week.

Rawhiti Schools New Garden To Table Website

Brooke, Maea, Noah and Jed from Tawhirimatea have been working on a new website. Here is the link. We hope you like it and find it useful.

Garden To Table @ Rawhiti School

Garden

Garden 20/11/20

Over the last few weeks Tāwhirimatea has been working hard on weeding and lots of other things to help beautify our garden. Here are some images of what we have been working on in Rāwhiti School's garden...

Garden Group Photos

 

Eco-Action Update

Over the last few weeks the Garden to Table groups from Tangaroa and Tawhirimatea have been transferring the seedlings we received from Eco-Action into bigger pots. David from Eco-Action also came this week to put up our new sign.

In other news, spring is almost here and we are busy germinating seeds to put in to the gardens as well as pulling out some of the winter crop of swedes and turnips to make some wintr treats. We will keep you posted on how our soup turns out.

Tawhirimatea and Tangaroa's Cooking Sessions

Over the last two weeks the Garden to Table groups in Tawhirimatea and Tangaroa have been getting together and cooking some delightful treats. Last week we made Cheesy Spinach Macaroni balls using spinach from the garden. Everyone thought they were fantastic.

This week we made Peach Crumble using the rest of the stewed peaches we had frozen from earlier in the year from our peach trees in the garden. We also decided to bake some bananas with sultanas and brown sugar, we used the bananas we had left over from fruit in schools. A BIG thank you to one of our wonderful teacher aides, Ali, for helping out and keeping our cooks focused.

We are ready for 500 plants.

Over the last 2 days we have been putting the finishing touches to our native plant nursery. We used the old playground mats and laid them out over the ground we flattened out. David from Eco-Action is coming on Monday afternoon with the 500 native tree seedlings that we are going to look after. We are going to be really busy looking after these as well as growing fruit and vegetables in the garden.

NEW TOOLS!

YAY!!! On Thursday Nigel and Mr Redmond went to Mitre 10 in Ferrymead to buy some much needed new tools for the garden. They got a new wheelbarow, 4 spades, 3 forks, 10 trowels, 4 mini forks, 2 hoes, a new 4 hose attachment for the tap, 2 pairs of secateurs and lots of seeds for the winter crop. A big thank you to Liz for letting us update the equipment in our shed and getting heaps of garden grow from Pearsons.

We can't wait to use all of our new tools.

Week 7 Update

This week we are finishing off making more planter boxes as well as creating a space for the 500 native tree seedlings that we are going to look after as part of our association with Eco-Action Nursery Trust. David from Eco Action will be coming in the next week or so to help us set up our nursery.

Check out the Eco-Action Nursery website for more details on what they do.