A year in the garden

Year 2 grew beans, lettuce and wheat in their own vegetable bed for a whole year; every week they measured, weighed and recorded, and cooked their harvest in the kitchen workshop.

In September we started with an empty bed and a box of seeds. Every week children measured the bed, recorded seedling heights with a ruler and added them to the class's big graph.

In winter the greenhouse came into use; lettuce was harvested in spring and beans in summer. On harvest day the kitchen workshop made shepherd's salad and beans in olive oil.