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Kitchen Garden
We welcome you to the garden for a FREE workshop on summer fruit tree pruning. WEDNESDAY 28th March from 3:30 – 5:30. Come learn to prune your fruit trees, to reduce height for easier harvesting, increase yield and improve structure… Continue Reading →
Woodend students have grown and nurtured a variety of organic tomato seedlings this term for your gardens! Come and check out what’s on offer to get your garden pumping with summer flavour. All proceeds going back into the Kitchen Garden… Continue Reading →
Kate is in the process of restructuring the garden to increase production and reduce the maintenance of the garden in coming years. We’re looking for some help in designing and advising on Woodend’s new native garden. We want to create… Continue Reading →
We welcome Kate Washington, our new garden specialist, pictured (right) with Amanda Whitrod, our Kitchen Specialist. Kate will start the term with visits to class, during the scheduled garden session times for Weeks 1&2. This will give Kate a chance… Continue Reading →
Thank you so much to the enthusiastic volunteers who have helped our kitchen garden classes with the working bees to bring the garden back into a manageable order. It has been a big team effort and the garden is now… Continue Reading →
Next week we are planning a big blitz in our Kitchen Garden… we are asking anyone who would like to make a difference in the garden to come along and spend as much (or as little time) as you can… Continue Reading →
After 6 years as our garden specialist, Monina is leaving us. We have loved working with Monina and our program has benefited from her extensive knowledge and expertise and also her creative headset. She has worked passionately to create a… Continue Reading →
We are looking forward to getting classes started with the Kitchen Garden Program next week. Our specialists, Amanda and Monina are conducting an information session this Wednesday 10 Feb at 9:00 am. We invite any parents who would like to… Continue Reading →
December, January and February are big harvesting months in our Kitchen Garden and we are inviting families to come along and take part in the harvest. Our Garden and Kitchen specialists, Amanda and Monina are usually very active in the… Continue Reading →
Watch us (including our own Haidi Sutherland) on Get Dirty With Milton tonight on Channel 44 at 7:00 pm. You can also catch it on Youtube here.
We are currently conducting a review of our kitchen garden program; interviewing the specialists, teachers, students and volunteers. On Tuesday we would love to catch up with any of our Kitchen or Garden Volunteers for about 30 minutes… Continue Reading →
We had a very positive response to our free movie night last Thursday evening. Families could enjoy sitting in comfy chairs or bean bags tasting strawberry sorbet, Apricot with Cardamom Grissini sticks or popcorn and viewing the thought-provoking movie ‘That… Continue Reading →
We love the Kitchen Garden program and our Yrs 3-5 students have been really excited about starting this week. There is a big harvest to manage and plenty of produce for our lovely fresh seasonal meals. Monina and Amanda, our garden and… Continue Reading →
We are once again this year seeking volunteers for our Kitchen Garden program. This program operates on Tuesday, Wednesday and also Thursday for Years 3-5 classes and will recommence on Tuesday 10 February. Further information for volunteers will be provided by… Continue Reading →
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