What a fantastic way to finish
our garden tours this season! The spirited, insightful grade 7 class from St.
Ignatious came out to learn all about organic farming….and of course to get
their hands dirty.
The garden
tour highlighted the innovative techniques in preserving the crops such as the
use of comfrey tea and shiny objects that help keep our “frenimies” a.k.a the
animals away. The ever-popular spilanthes plant kept its reputation in
intriguing all of the kids to try it, followed by almost all of them spitting
it out! It is interesting to think about the medicinal plants and how they were
used! Imagine having to eat some spilanthes in order to get rid of a
toothache…YUCK!
Once the
kids learned all about the farm, it was time to get dirty! We grabbed our pitch
forks and headed to the back field to harvest some red potatoes! After lots of
hard work we took our buckets of dirty potatoes to be cleaned and ready for the
thanksgiving market. Once the potatoes were ready to go we moved on to plucking
out all of the delicious carrots for the market as well!
Cant wait to see you back here for some cooking and of course eating!
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