The school year has certainly started with a bang in the vegie patch, with pumpkins, cucumbers, corn, tomatoes and beans keeping the children busy harvesting, cooking and preserving our summer bounty.  These crops were sown before the end of the 2023 year and are showing the abundance that comes from many years of careful soil management and the use of biodynamic preparations.

This year, each class will participate in caring for our bushland with particular focus on the creek line.  Ivy, blackberry, gladioli, asparagus fern and watsonia are the predominant weed species that require different weeding techniques.

In 2024, I will be teaching classes 3, 4, 5, 7 and 8, while Jiffy will take classes 1, 2 and 6.

Of particular delight to the children were the giant pumpkins that we grew and will hopefully last to be on the Autumn harvest table.

With warm weather still with us, we will continue to plant the short-term summer crops (like bush beans and zucchini) and our “all year rounders” like lettuce, potatoes and beetroot.

Of course parent helpers are always welcome to come along to gardening classes.  Just message me on 0456 229 124.

Happy Gardening!

Neal