Year 6 News
Farm Club 18th November
22/11/2024 · No comments yet
It was a very cold farm club this week! We carried on working on the Access Garden replenishing the beds with compost, manure and top soil. It was hard work but the plants will hopefully grow more strongly with the added nutrients. We also continued chopping down the shelter-belts: creating lots of sticks and Read More
Farm Club November 4th 2024
08/11/2024 · No comments yet
There was a livestock focus in Farm Club this week. Our chickens were moved to their winter quarters, requiring us to prepare two coops, move food and water and create a new barrier to funnel the chickens in and out when they get the chance to come out into the field at lunchtime. We Read More
Farm Club 30 Sept 2024
01/10/2024 · 1 comment
This was probably the wettest Farm Club ever! We kept working on the farm despite the rain, although we tried to stay in the polytunnels if we could. The children worked hard! After last week’s big harvest, there wasn’t much to pick. We did inside watering using collected rainwater, took redundant leaves off tomato Read More
First Farm Club of the season
23/09/2024 · No comments yet
We had our first farm club of the new school year: 17 keen gardeners from Y3-6. During this first session we toured the site and harvested what we could: figs, apples, tomatoes, courgette, cucumbers and a pepper (accidentally). We also harvested a butternut squash that had detached itself. We forgot to harvest grapes! (The Read More
Discovery in the orchard
13/09/2024 · No comments yet
Year 6 made an amazing discovery in a remote part of the orchard: a series of honeycombs attached to the branches of an apple tree. There weren’t many bees around about. Should we leave it there? Could we ‘harvest’ it? Could there be honey? We have emailed our beekeepers for advice.
Final Farm Club July 2024
15/08/2024 · No comments yet
On our final Farm Club in July, we tended to our crops in the top polytunnel ready for the holidays and we harvested new potatoes. We then made a potato salad to eat and take some home.
