Welcome! The Good Shepherd Garden Club began in April 2010 following a fund raising effort by the school council to purchase five raised garden beds. Since that time the Garden Club has met weekly on a Wednesday and our gardens have expanded to include the area outside the office and an orchard.
The Garden Club has been fortunate to have received support from a range of sponsors who have donated gardening equipment and plants. One of our key contributors has been the Mt Eden Village People's Fruit Trees for Auckland who donated all the trees for our orchard.
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| Golden Queen peaches from our orchard |
The Garden Club also holds market days two to three times a year where we sell our produce to help raise additional funds for projects such as a rainwater tank and the play garden which is currently under development. This year we are hoping to raise enough money to purchase a small garden shed to store our tools and other equipment.
Our eager band of young gardeners are assisted each week by Ms Scanlan and a dedicated group of parent helpers - new parent helpers are always welcome! During a garden club session the children help with weeding, feeding, planting and harvesting and gain lots of knowledge and experience about gardening , plant life cycles and insect life. Each week two children will also have the opportunity to take photographs and write a blog post about our gardening exploits further adding to the learning opportunities available to them through the Garden Club. Throughout the year we also have cooking sessions in small groups using garden produce. This is definitely a highlight for many of the children.
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| Our bug hotel to attract beneficial insects to the garden |
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| Our tallest ever sunflowers. Grown from seed collected from last years crop |
Love the sunflowers and the bug hotel
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Deletewe are saving one sunflower for the birds to eat the seeds, and the rest are for planting next year
Lovely to see the progress in your work. I was with you when you made the bug hotel. I am so impressed with the progress of the garden and the ideas behind it. So good for the children to think about sharing the work and the resulting produce from the garden. The sunflowers are beautiful. Well done Mary Keeley (Evie and Gina's grandma).
ReplyDeleteThose peaches look delicious
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