Indian Flatbread and Asian Coleslaw

Gardening

The Sunflower Group worked with Miss Emma in the garden on Wednesday. We added pea straw to some of our garden beds, watered the plants and worked on the compost bin.

IMG_1903  IMG_1905  IMG_1914  IMG_1922

Cooking

This week, the Basil and Cabbage Groups made Indian Flatbread and an Asian Coleslaw. Recipes can be found on the Recipe page.

IMG_1907  IMG_1909  IMG_1910  IMG_1915  IMG_1917 IMG_1918  IMG_1919  IMG_1921  IMG_1926

Sharing Food

IMG_1931  IMG_1932

Fettuccine & Basil Pesto

Today’s recipe was Fettuccine with Basil Pesto. We made some dough and ran it through the pasta maker in order to make our own pasta. We used the basil from our garden to make the basil pesto. I’ll add a recipe section to our blog, so that you can make these meals at home for your families!

IMG_1854   IMG_1856   IMG_1861   IMG_1862   IMG_1864   IMG_1868   IMG_1869   IMG_1871   IMG_1873   IMG_1875

Garden Lesson: The Garden’s Most Wanted

Visit the kitchen garden and look for any creatures, for example caterpillars, spiders, ants, birds, bees, or any other bugs.

Take a photo or draw sketches of the creatures in your Kitchen / Garden book.

Classify the creatures according to whether they eat plants (herbivore) or animals (carnivore).  You will need to carry out some research on the internet to find out more about your creatures.

Further classify the creatures according to whether they are harmful to plants or helpful.

Make a list of ‘The Garden’s Most Wanted’ creatures who will cause the most damage to the kitchen garden.

Select one of the ‘most wanted’ creatures and make up an information card so that others can identify it in the garden.  Your information card must include a photo/sketch/diagram (labelled), details about how they live, what they eat and how they reproduce, information about where they live in the garden and what sort of conditions they like.

You must also research some natural methods for getting rid of the ‘nasty’ creatures.  Remember – we are growing an Organic garden so we can’t use chemicals or pesticides at all.  You will need to work out strategies for controlling the pest in a natural way.  Record your ideas in your kitchen / garden book.

http://eartheasy.com/grow_nat_pest_cntrl.htm

http://www.zerowaste.sa.gov.au/upload/alternatives-to-chemicals/gardenalternatives.pdf

http://permaculturenews.org/2013/08/12/controlling-garden-pests-with-natural-remedies/

Garden

 

 

 

 

Photo by WGS Student, 2014