First Planting

How exciting. Today some of our younger pupils got planting. They planted cabbages, carrots, lettuce and beans. We are quiet excited about coming back from the holidays to see what has grown.

Fill Them Up Boys

We are only one step away from sowing seeds and planting plants. This morning the top soil for our raised gardens arrived. One of our Dad's is a truck driver and he delivered it for us. This afternoon the boys in Room 11 shifted the soil into the four other gardens (the truck filled one). It took two and a half hours (and a number of mandarins) to complete this part of the process.

Soil and Compost Arrives

Things are getting quite exciting. Today the soil and the compost arrived for the raised gardens. All that is needed now is to fill the boxes with the soil and compost and then the planting can begin.

Raised Gardens Go Up

Over the previous couple of weeks the boys have armed themselves with hammers and headed down to the garden area to put together the framework for the raised gardens.  Today we worked with Graeme, our caretaker, to erect the raised gardens.  We had to make sure they were square before we could peg them.  Once pegged we nailed the garden boxes to the pegs so that when we filled them with soil they would not move.

Timber For The Raised Gardens Finally Arrives

Today the timber for our raised gardens arrived.  It will only be a matter of days now before we start building them!!

Garden Box Plans

Shane, Sam and Adam had the challenge of planning the school vegetable garden area. They kept track of their ideas using Poppet.

Developing and Sustain the School Vegetable Gardens

OUR VISION FOR .......

In 2011 the Huia Range School Board of Trustees appproved a proposal to develop the school playing field.  The BOT agreed to incorporate raised vegetables gardens as part of the field development.

In January 2012, our back field

 was ploughed up and re-sown.

part of the field was made into an all weather running track, 

with skills activity stations at regular intervals.

One area was set aside to develop a series

 of raised vegetable gardens.

The grant from Eastern and Central also allowed 

up to purchase a tank to water the garden during summer.