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.