Yay! The shirts have arrived. Orange is the go at Kellyville Public School at the moment for our gardeners.
Our garden has been divided into plots and the children and community helpers have been taking advantage of the cold but sunny weather to do planting.
We have planted cos lettuce, carrots, potatoes, primula, pansies, sweet peas, stock, foxgloves, snapdragons, cinerarias, sunflowers and gladiolus.
We hope the plants start growing and the snails keep away.
Akuna Garden
Kellyville Public School in Sydney, Australia had a huge patch of useless dirt and being part of the new environmental team we decided that it was time for action. We wanted to turn this dirt into a useful spectacular garden. We had the dirt, recycled water, compost bins, worm farms, chicken poo, over 500 willing gardeners but we didn’t have any tools or money. FISKARS came to the rescue when we entered the Project Orange Thumb competition and won.
We named the garden, ‘The Akuna Garden’. Akuna is an aboriginal word meaning to ‘know and follow’. The purpose of the garden is to involve school children, teachers, parents and community groups in the planting and maintaining of the garden. Many classes are learning about growing and changing and the life cycle of a plants complement this.
We were so excited when the tools arrived and we sent teams of children out to test them. Our money arrived and it was time for shopping. We needed lots of trolleys when we went plant shopping. We are excited and ready to start creating our spectacular Akuna Garden.
It's so nice to see the kids involved in gardening in their school.....oops...I think one of the young ladies was so delighted and happy that she has juMPed into the bin.....LOL!
If you would like to see how Kellyville is progressing with their Akunda Garden then you can go here
PROJECT ORANGE THUMB is just a fabulous initiative of FISKARS.....there were 4 winners awarded in Australia for 2010. I'll be back later in the week following the progress of a winning entry from South Australia. If you can't wait until then.......why not pop over to PROJECT ORANGE THUMB and see what all the winning entrantrs are doing.....it's so interesting to see how they are all progressing....they have their own Blog....so it's easy to follow!
xoxo
Lyn Dwyer
Love seeing kids in the garden and the Akuna garden sounds like a wonderful experience for everyone - it will be great to see the vegies and flowers growing together :)
Posted by: TracyM | July 19, 2010 at 11:14 AM