Garden Bed by D 9/10 Students

Workers work the Green

Glamourous it ain't shoveling a new batch of dirt,wheelbarrow by wheelbarrow. But D9/10 have made two bail garden beds on the green in the last two weeks and filled them with soil.

Our students are the true quiet achievers of the green and they work hard to make a home for new plants that they tend, then pluck and cook up in the kitchen. Phillip got stuck in and shoveled load after load. Hayden wheeled loads into the new beds. Michael and Dylan shared a spade and dug in ! Sam kept up the dirt load for load with the boys. Joel topped up the barrel tanks by hose. Joshua watered in the newly planted seedlings, bed by bed. An hour and half later on some of the steamiest days in November so far the beds are ready to produce !

They were thirsty, they were hungry, but they got the job done.





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A berry nice place is HalindaGreen

Mornings works on HalindaGreen

We Have Lockup !

Our outdoor classroom garden kitchen is empty but ready to be made by hand and heart into a top class food and environmental education centre ! We are not a big school, we are not a rich school, but we are a community school and we look forward to furnishing the new building with the efforts of our staff, students and community. Thankyou to all who have contributed time and effort so far.

Thanks to Zoe from the Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Program

Zoe came and visited us today. She is a project officer with the SAKG program and she came out to see progress underway and meet and chat with staff. Zoe met students and talked with our Kitchen Educator Brook. She also talked to Anne-Marie our Garden Educator and Mr D our HalindaGreen Project Educator. We love having visitors to HalindaGreen and there was a break in the rain for Zoes visit !

Construction well under way !

HalindaGreen is getting a Green Pavilion !

Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Coming to this Space

 

Take a look at this space. This year we are going to get a kitchen in our garden. HalindaGreen will look different. We will also be learning more about pleasurable food. The Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Scheme has begun. Our kitchen garden will be expanding and the produce will be prepared in an outdoor kitchen. The builders and engineers are currently drawing up plans based on our needs and resources.

Watch this space !

Term 2 Growing Passions

 
Just as summer winds down the business of getting stuck into the garden as a community heats up. The air is cooler, making for an even better time in the garden to 'dig in'. HalindaGreen has continued to grow. It's harvest is getting richer. We thought that maybe our passionfruit vine was empty rootstock. But the plant has fruited. It came as a lovely surprise.

Josh's Dad Helps Out

Wednesdays are open days for parents and community members who want to contribute to the garden at Halinda.

Josh's Dad came in this week to help out with the maintenance of the plants, garden beds and watering. Feel free to come in and spend a half hour, or even longer if you wish, on Wednesday mornings from 9:30 onwards.

We can even arrange other days and times for the really keen.

It is a lovely way to contribute to the life of the local community.
Thankyou to our friends and helpers who do so much for us.

HalindaGreen Gets Cooking

Bianca, Project manager for the Melbourne based but now expanding Australia wide Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Garden Project paid a visit to HalindaGreen today.

HalindaGreen is working on establishing our pavilion kitchen garden on the Green.



http://www.kitchengardenfoundation.org.au/

Open School Community Garden Wednesdays

It's all systems go with our school community garden. Our first community garden morning went well with P&C and staff sharing time digging, weeding, enjoying the garden and talking about growing things ! A good day





First day of the school community garden Open Wednesdays project.

Liz Smith (pictured) our community liason worked with parents and made great headway clearing garden beds and working around trees. Parents enjoyed getting their hands dirty, pitching in making the garden an even better place to be for their children.
The garden is open every Wednesday for Community members to come up and help out, see the garden grow, enjoy the outdoors and see the kids at work in the outdoor classrooom.