Dig deep and donate

Come help dig in a native tree or donate a tree to Arahoe School. 19th of June 9am 

Picking apples for the crumble!

Today we picked the last of the orchard's apples (for crumble next week mmmmm yum), filled the bee troughs with water and weeded the garden. We found an enormous perfectly formed carrot when we were weeding - it tasted good. Check it out our famous carrot in the photos below!

We learned that the orchard trees weren't dying - they just lose their leaves in autumn.

Yummy and healthy!

Treat time

We harvested our one and only pumpkin that survived since it was a baby seed. It was time to cut it up and turn it into pumpkin soup. We were sorry to cut it up, it looked too pretty to eat!!!!

Next week, we are making apply crumble from the apples in the orchard and homemade icecream. It's hard work being an Eco Kid!

Water, water everywhere

Our garden watering system is working again so we have the all clear to plant more seedlings. When your watering system doesn't work, you really notice the weather... and boy has it been dry!

This week we got the garden ready for the new seedlings. Our muscles had a work out pulling out big plants that had past their best. We made some comfrey tea by cutting comfrey leaves and leaving it to compost down to a concentrated liquid. It is a super organic fertiliser for your garden.

In the herb garden, you will now find stevia, a herb that is 300 times sweeter than sugar! Mmm yum.

Grounds Duty

As part of keeping our environment clean and tidy, each class has a week of school grounds duty where we go on a hunt to pick up rubbish.

Here is Mrs Makani and Room 23's effort. It wasn't even their week on grounds duty, they just wanted to do a deed! Ka pai Room 23:) We love your passion to keep things green!

The bees are back in town

We enjoyed making water troughs for the new bees this week. Bees need nectar, pollen and... water. We placed rocks on plates and then filled them with water. The rocks are there for the bees to land on safely, so they don't slip into the water.

We also started making our first batch of comfrey tea concentrate. Full of vitamin B12 and nitrate - absolutely super duper plant food for your garden.

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The Eco Kids have been busy planting seedlings, making bamboo teepees for the tomatoes and fertilising the vegetable beds and native areas. Ask us what fertiliser is and what Blood and Bone comes from! We know all about it and the smell too!