First meeting about Vegie Garden, 8Mar07 - notice in school Newsletter

http://www.walesstps.vic.edu.au/home/?703
Wales St Primary School

Newsletter

WALES STREET NEWS
08/03/07

Vegie Garden at Wales St

Some parents Clare H, Marianne T and Adam T are meeting at 9.15am tomorrow Friday 9th March in the staffroom to talk about planning for a vegie garden at our school.
We are looking for anyone who may be able to attend the School Kitchen Garden conference day on Tuesday 20th March at Collingwood Town Hall.
Contact one of us if you are interested in either.
Adam Tiller 0413 835 173 adamt@psychcentre.org

Vegetable Garden Program

Wales St Primary School

Timetable for Fridays

Garden Period 1

10.15am - 11am (Sue's class for 2 weeks, Steve's class for 2 weeks)

Recess (kids will want to come over and want to help)

Garden Period 2

11.30am - 12.15pm (David's class, Week 3 goes for 45 minutes)

Garden Period 3
12.15pm - 1pm (Rosemary's class, with help from 2 or 3 kids from David's class, Unavailable week 3)

Lunchtime

Garden Period 4

2pm - 2.45pm (Dan's class, Rita takes this class for week 3)

Garden Period 5

2.45pm - 3.30pm (Kate's class for two weeks, Helen's class for two weeks)

Lincoln's ideas for the Vegie Garden

Photo of Mike Hill and Lorna

of WestWyck Ecovillage

This is my second post to this blog.

Adam

Native American food bed, Mediterranean food bed

Here are some thoughts about the garden, by Lincoln.

From: "Lincoln Kern"
To:
Subject: [wsps-bg:24] Re: Vegie Garden at Wales St, meet Fri 9Mar07 9.15am -
notice for newsletter
Date: Thu, 8 Mar 2007 09:48:41 +1100

G'day All

I am keen to help on the veggie garden project but won't be able to get to
the meeting on Friday.

My two cents:

The easy part is design and installation of the physical bits...all it is a
good fence, raised beds, maybe propagation greenhouse, tool shed and water
infrastructure...and the state government has a grant for this...

The hard part is incorporation into the school curriculum and the ongoing
parental and staff involvement to make it a vibrant program over time. I
believe the State Government Grants include money for a part-time teacher
the first year or two but ongoing people resources are the issue as I see
it.

I already have plenty of ideas to make it interesting:
- A bed of native American crops - corn, beans and pumpkins - and do some food around that.
- Grow a Mediterranean food bed and get some nonnas to come share their recipes.
- Other food themes and more parents to guide cooking.
- Teach how organic works and do trials with scientific methods on pest control techniques.
- Measure carbon uptake to offset greenhouse gases in soils.

Thanks

Lincoln Kern
Managing Director
Practical Ecology Pty. Ltd.
P. O. Box 228
Preston Victoria 3072
AUSTRALIA
Ph. 03 9484 1555
Fax 03 9484 9133
http://www.practicalecology.com.au/

First Post - First Day in the garden, Friday, 1st June 2006

This is my first post to this blog.
I couldn't get the name wsps, thornbury, darebin, adam, sharryn, sjat.

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Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 21:12:41 +1000
To: wsps-kitchen-garden@googlegroups.com
From: Adam Tiller <adamt@psychcentre.org>
Subject: [wsps-kg:83] five classes today! 1st May 2007. Timetable of who & when today

Hi everyone,
We took five classes today! Wow, it was busy!
The last two classes actually planted some seedlings into the edge of twobeds, and some into a third.
Chris Sexton came at the start of the first lesson with the first class and said a few words.
The kids loved it, and we're well on the way to it becoming THEIR garden.
Congratulations to everyone named!
Adam