Our End-of-Term Party

We had a little feast today to celebrate the end of term and because we “accomplished our achievements”. 

First we made chips from our very own kale, which we harvested then baked in the oven…

Harvesting, preparing and eating our kale chips.

The kale chips were very popular. We soon had lots of other students wanting to join in our party.

Last week Clare had asked our gardeners what else they’d like to eat for our feast. The requests were impressively healthy – popcorn, carrots and cucumber. So we had these to eat along with hummus, chocolate brownies, a honey and lemon cake and more of Lisa’s delicious mandarins.

While the others were cooking the kale chips one of our gardeners was busy harvesting peas and exploring. She noticed there were more peas  growing on the sunny side of the planter box than on the shady side, and that the pea pods were very well camouflaged and hard to find, both for us and probably for hungry birds too. She discovered little green caterpillars hiding in the leaves. And most interestingly of all, she found some pea flowers that were just starting to become pea pods, so we got the chance to observe exactly how they were being formed.

It’s very exciting to see this kind of spontaneous curiosity and exploration happening as our gardeners become more familiar and confident around the plants. Clare and the volunteers are really noticing this change. There is so much learning going on!

Thank you Clare, for all the work you’ve put in to making this such a fun and interesting term.