October 2024
School Spring Harvest
We checked in to see how our school gardens and kitchens were going now spring is blooming! If you need any gardening and cooking inspiration, then you have come to the right place. There is some incredible produce and deliciousness being cooked up all around the state in our 24 Carrot Garden schools!
At Springfield Gardens Primary School, our Kitchen Specialist Kate, has been cooking cabbage, broccoli, silverbeet, radish and carrot Okonomiyaki with nori seaweed and carrot noodles with the students. Yum!
Harvest From Montrose High School
In the north west at East Devonport Primary School, Bonnie put on an end of term pizza party with garden pizza featuring green sprinkles from the garden “as it can’t be garden pizza without them”.
Green sprinkles recipe: spring onions, leeks, oregano, thyme, rosemary, parsley, silver beet, english spinach, celery, broccoli, kale OR anything you have in the garden!
Glenorchy Primary also have been making pizzas, but of the rainbow variety with their Kitchen Specialist, Dom! Warrane Primary’s garden has been blooming with produce including: broccoli, celery, rhubarb, parsley, saltbush, nasturtium and as always, lots of edible flowers!
At Clarendon Vale Primary School, Kachina, Anna and their students are enjoying a bumper asparagus harvest this year! Shout out to previous Garden Specialist, Matt, for planting the crowns a few years ago. They are also harvesting carrots, rainbow chard, rhubarb, herbs and calendula. Anna made asparagus cheese puffs with the students and they were a crispy, cheesy hit!
Okonomiyaki from Springfield Gardens Primary School
In the north, Camille has been cooking with Ravenwood Heights Primary School, making mixed vegetable fritters with lots of fresh chard from the garden. They have also been enjoying some self seeding coriander.
And at Montrose Bay High School, Tess and her students have been harvesting a big haul out of the school garden: snow peas (mammoth melting), nasturtium leaves and flowers, broad bean leaves, spring onions, cape gooseberries, broccoletti florets, celery, kale and silverbeet!
Nigel and his students have made some gozleme with the silverbeet from the garden after students learnt the ropes from Chef Vlad at Botanical on their excursion. They’ve been teaching other students how to make it, and the consensus is that this is one of their food highlights of the term! Woo!
Garden pizzas with green sprinkles at East Devonport Primary School
