Garden to Tables

 We are lucky to have a Garden to Tables programme running at our school. Half our class work in the garden while the other half prepare and cook food in the kitchen. The session culminates with us all sitting down to a delicious meal.

The gardners did chores like pulling out weeds, trimming branches, collecting seeds, cleaning out the compost bins and spreading mulch. Hard physical work but very rewarding.

The cooks in the kitchen made a pasta dish with a tomato sauce. Others cooked kumara chips or made a rhubarb muffin. Cooking is a reading and maths activity. The recipies needed to be carefully followed, and the ingredients accutrately measured.

The result after an hours dedicated work was a scrumptious healthy meal. Hopefully, we can all go home and help with the gardening and cooking around the house.

Garden to Tables

Our class have Garden to Tables fortnightly for the first half of this year. Garden to Tables is a programme where we can get our hands dirty in the garden. It is a programme where we can make and create delicious meals in the kitchen.

We help grow, harvest, prepare and share fresh food. Today we made a basil pesto pasta and a blueberry and apple crumble. Some of the ingredients were grown in our own school garden.

We are lucky to have parents that come in and support the programme by helping Ms Best in the kitchen and Whaea Joyce in the garden.

This is the Garden to Table's website where you can find out much more about the programme. Maybe a school in your area might like to get involved.