June 20, 2017
Kids’ Edible Gardens: bugs and compost
As we reach the shortest day for 2017, we are remembering summer-fun in the garden at Canvastown and Fairhall schools. In Term 1, as part of their investigation into ecology and diversity in the garden, the children at Canvastown School went on an insect hunt, learning to recognise the insects that live in their garden (top left image). Insects have an important role to play in an organic garden, we have to care for them as much as we do the plants we grow. The children wanted to encourage more insects to live and work in their garden so they decided to make a bug hotel out of recycled pallets and building materials as...
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