Decked out in their vibrant orange t-shirts and with new tools at the ready, children from Red group last week helped teacher, Lisa, to harvest the crop of silver beet from the vegetable patch. This existing vegetable patch is to be removed to make way for our new garden and will be replaced by a bigger one to grow even more crops of delicious fresh food.
Many of the children proudly went home with a bunch of silverbeet from the garden and will hopefully be encouraged to taste it since they grew it themselves. At Bernard Briggs Kindergarten we think this is a fantastic way to foster an interest in fresh food and healthy eating practices.
The children are now on holidays for two weeks. During this time parent volunteers are planning to take out the existing structures in our garden area, lay foundations and construct our retaining walls. It is our hope this will be finished by the time the children return for term 3 and they can begin work on planting the garden. We have ordered most of our plants and they are being stored for us until the garden is ready.
Lisa says "We are very pleased with the progress we are making!"
Lisa and the children are all from Bernard Briggs Kindegarten in Benalla Victoria and were one of the chosen winners in this year's Project Orange Grants made available by FISKARS!
To see more of the wonderful projects and to learn more about this fabulous Gardening Initiative by FISKARS....pop over here .....and tomorrow in Brunswick East in Melbourne...they are having a dig over for the Merri Corner Community Garden(another grant winner)....so if you live near by...why not pop on over and have a look see......click on the link below to see what plans are in store for tomorrow!!
I must admit it's sooooooooo good to see kids being encouraged to garden.....they really learn so much about the plant life cycle and they get so much pleasure out of taking ownership for their hard work.....and besides...kids LO...........VVVVVVVVVVVV.....EEEEEE getting their hands dirty....LOL!
Bonus in growing veggies is that they get to eat them......amazing how kids will eat silverbeet if they have grown it themselves and are involved in the whole growing process........he.he......
Have a lovely weekend everyone!!
xoxo
Lyn
Great to see the kids getting dirty in the garden :)
... they will definitely be eating their greens when
they have grown them in their own garden!!!
Posted by: TracyM | July 03, 2010 at 03:42 PM