Our Mara Kai Garden is blooming!
Over the past couple of months, the Tamariki in Kōwhai Room have been learning about how to care for our Mara Kai Garden, through planting the vegetables, to watering them, pulling out the weeds and, lastly harvesting the vegetables for our kai here at Active Explorers Greenmeadows. There has been real excitement watching the vegetables grow, harvesting the yummy strawberries each day, and most recently being able to harvest the broccoli which we have been able to eat as part of our Summer afternoon platter! We have been able to harvest our greens to go into our Pepe vegetables which our children have thoroughly enjoyed eating! Our tamariki have been learning how to become kaitiaki for our gardens, and they have done an amazing job! We have delving deeping into Maramataka, the Māori lunar calendar, which is used to guide planting and harvesting, and it is definitely paying off as look at our vegetables thriving!
