Te Tipua School vegetable gardeners (from left) Lucas
Dickison (7), Briana Miller (8) and Ashley Stevenson (5)
take their garden project very seriously.
Rabbits ate Te Tipua School's first vegetable garden last
year, but this year pupils and teachers are determined that
will not happen again.
As part of a term two and three inquiry into looking after
the environment and promoting healthy eating, the young
gardeners planted the 2008 vegetable garden and this time put
netting over the plants to keep the rabbits away.
Te Tipua School principal Andrea Joyce said the pupils had
asked themselves what they could do better and they had come
up with a plan.
Te Tipua School staff Marilyn Katon and Debbie Nicolson went
to an Eatable Garden Workshop in Invercargill earlier this
year. The workshop was a joint project by the Heart
Foundation, Public Health South, the University of Otago and
Healthy Eating and Healthy Action.
So, armed with knowledge and determination, the school
community is hoping there will be plenty of food for an
upcoming barbecue.
Next year, the school will benefit from a new tunnel house
funded by Public Health South.
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