Seaforth Kitchen Garden

We would like to invite you to follow our Seaforth Public School - "our.school.garden" Instagram Page.

Seaforth Public School was one of the first Stephanie Alexander Kitchen Gardens to be established in NSW & has been running for 14 years! Our garden spreads out over ¼ acre & we grow vegetables, fruit, bush tucker, flowers and in addition we have chickens, bees & a frog pond plus our very own onsite brush turkey nest....lol.

Each week on our Instagram page, we post what we've been up to in our garden and kitchen. We want to share this with you, our not so traditional classroom where some of the most significant outcomes are seen. These activities include:

• investigation

• harvesting

• planting

• composting

• worm farms

• sustainability

• chickens

• tadpoles/frogs

• tips & tricks

• art

• cooking

• bush tucker

• preserving

• dehydrating

• eating/tasting

We are very proud and passionate about what we do and teach in our garden and school kitchen and hope that you enjoy following us on our journey.

"Unless we are willing to encourage our children to reconnect with and appreciate the natural world, we can't expect them to help protect and care for it." - David Suzuki

Our Seaforth students have been busy helping make all our amazing pickles & jams. Great Christmas presents!

This year we also have Seaforth Xmas tree decorations, which have been lovingly handmade using upcycled school uniforms, keeping in line with our school sustainability practices. What a wonderful memento to have hanging on your Xmas tree for years to come.

Products:
🎄$5.00 - Tomato Chili Jam
🎄$5.00 - Sweet Mustard Pickle
🎄$5.00 - Cucumber Pickle
🎄$5.00 - Strawberry Jam
🎄$7.50 - Gum Nut Angel Decorations
🎄$10.00 - SPS Xmas Tree Decorations

All orders can be ordered below using the link:
https://forms.gle/5LHJy2tSuV5ZPmXZ8

Due to the limited number of our special Christmas products available - once your order is received and confirmed, you will be sent a payment link for School Bytes and your order will be sent home with your child/ren.

Pumpkin all round in our school kitchen today. Pumpkin, spinach, feta frittata, pumpkin choc chip cookies & left overs going to our hens 😋

DID YOU KNOW?
Pumpkins have separate male and female flowers on the same plant. That means that it takes two to make a pumpkin.
Pollen must be moved from the male to the female flower. Bees visiting flowers transfer pollen but it can also be done by hand 🐝

Huge harvest of Vanilla Ice cream Beans today. Enough for all our Yrs 3-6!

And we’re back - hello 2024! What a fabulous first week back in our school garden. Facts, finds, figs & fun 😊

Produce goes straight from our school garden, harvested by our students to our school kitchen. We have been busy making potato/spinach frittata, pickled red cabbage and sweet & sour cucumber pickles 😋 Nothing goes to waste. What we can’t use straight away is preserved/pickled/frozen for later.

Nature bracelets 🌺🍃🍂 It’s fun to see all the different combinations and patterns of nature items the kids come up with.

BOOMERANG!! Boomerang Bag printing day today. Every Kindy student will get to take one home. Thank you Boomerang Bags Northern Beaches - Seaforth Tanya Leishman Boomerang Bags Northern Beaches - Kimbriki

Rhubarb harvested this week & made into rhubarb crumble - it was delicious 😋

We have a circular seed system in our garden. We now have our own seed library for every season 😃

What an adventure to Kimbriki Resource Recovery Centre today with our Seaforth Sustainability Squad. Our young Ecologists came away with new knowledge on what their mission is to make this planet a better place. Thank you Rachel we will be back 💚