A Time of Plenty

It's been one busy March for us here at Arataki School.

We have been harvesting our potatoes, carrots, kale, silverbeet, kumara, corn as well as the last of our basil.

The seedlings we direct sowed are now ready for thinning out so Whaea Clare has been showing us what to do.

We have been doing some mulching around the school and things are looking very tidy.

Our kura is so lucky as we are getting four new classrooms. These will be placed where our garden club is so we will be moving down to the right hand side of the field. In preparation for this we started to move a couple of the planter boxes and have filled them up with twigs, compost, mulch and soil. The beds have been sown with lupins and phacelia as cover crops to help the soil structure and to fix nitrogen into the soil until we know when we will be moving.