KALANGADOO Primary School’s youngest green thumbs have been busy growing and nurturing their knowledge on local farming and produce.
This term Year R-7 students have been focusing on themes of the South East region, including dairy, cattle, sheep, apples, forestry and cropping.
“The main idea is to learn where our food comes from and recognise all the hard work our local farmers put in,” Kalangadoo Primary School teacher Marnie Smith said.
“We are also updating our school’s mural to depict farming around our town.”
As part of their learning, students joined forces with their parents and the Kalangadoo community to build a vegetable garden on the school grounds.
The parents and community members donated tyres which were used for garden beds and also organised the donation and delivery of soil.
Students planted lettuce, celery, peas and cabbages in the vegetable garden and have been using their produce for cooking.
“We bake food with the kindy kids at a stall at the Kalangadoo market,” Ms Smith said, adding the garden had been a useful learning tool at school.
“We are also learning about seasonal plant rotations and what grows best when – basically students are learning how to nurture and care for their plants,” she said.
“Some of the vegetables were grown from seeds and some from cuttings.”
Last week the primary school students visited Kalangadoo Organic Apple Farm and Ange, Ben, Connor and Shae Tweedle at Benlargo Dairy in Glencoe.
They looked at the operations of both farms and the process of their production – from farm to supermarket.
