Does your school need help in setting up an edible school garden?
Dee's practical gardening workshops will inspire and upskill potential gardeners at school.
Dee author of Growing Gardeners and Gardening for Planet Earth can visit your school to help you get started.
Dee can Facilitate School Gardening Workshops Or Organise a Workshop for a Group of Teachers.
Dee's practical gardening workshops will inspire and upskill potential gardeners at school.
Dee author of Growing Gardeners and Gardening for Planet Earth can visit your school to help you get started.
Dee can Facilitate School Gardening Workshops Or Organise a Workshop for a Group of Teachers.
Dee will cover:
Dee has a set of notes for teachers that will be available on the day.
Please Bring
Each school may bring up to 3 adults (teachers, caretaker, gardener, parent helper) and 2 students.
A camera.
Enthusiasm, ideas and questions.
Your wonderful "can do" attitude.
- Writing the Organic Gardening Proposal
- Building Enthusiasm, Practical Steps, Building Bridges, Getting Started, Preparation For Growing, Garden Care
- Organic Gardening, Sharing The Fun With the Kids, Nature's Cycles, Soil, Food Web, Seeds, Germination
- How to keep your garden producing through the seasons
- Sustainability
- Big Ecological Ideas
- Envisioning the Future
Dee has a set of notes for teachers that will be available on the day.
Please Bring
Each school may bring up to 3 adults (teachers, caretaker, gardener, parent helper) and 2 students.
A camera.
Enthusiasm, ideas and questions.
Your wonderful "can do" attitude.
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Aim of workshop:
- Support teachers in developing and using school gardens
- To develop and improve knowledge and understanding of gardening
- Provide you with ideas covering all aspects of vegetable gardening.
- Help you design garden spaces and planting patterns to facilitate learning in your outdoor classroom including beneficial insect gardens and food forests. — The Garden as a living laboratory
- Connect the sustainability dots—Biodiversity and the interrelations between children and garden organisms.
- Show you how the Digital Blue microscope opens up a whole new world as we examine the soil food web.
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Courses begin at 10am and finish at 4pm
Cost: $40 Each class is limited to 12 participants Part of the day is spent outdoors so bring suitable footwear and clothing Participants bring something simple and healthy for a shared lunch Payment is required before course date Directions and homework will be sent 1 week before course date |
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Building the garden at Hato Petera college. |
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Once the garden layout had been designed everyone helped to build the no-dig raised garden beds. |
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Dee demonstrated the art of handling seedlings and planting them into their new beds. |
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Once the beds were planted and cloches were in place, the whole school turned out to celebrate. |
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Elsabé Pretorius, the teacher responsible for organising the garden at Hato Petera college, thins the summer carrots. |
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