You don’t need whitebait to cook a tasty summer fritter! These recipes were created by students from Waimea Intermediate School during their MasterChef challenge. Give them a go yourself!

Suzy really bites into this investigation. How do apples grow? Do you know? Why don't you join Suzy and find out?

This article recounts an important story from the oral tradition of Tainui. It tells of how the iwi’s ancestor, Whakaotirangi, brought kūmara and other plants to Aotearoa and describes the techniques she used to plant, grow, and store them. Whakaotirangi’s gardens made it possible for Tainui to settle in one place, rather than having to keep moving to seek food. In time, Whakaotirangi’s kete of kūmara changed how people live across Aotearoa.

Do oranges float or sink in water? Time to find out with this fun science experiment related to density.

It’s Old Mac Science Guy’s “Farming” show, E-I-E-I-O.

Link to video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JhKkSCxgels&list=PLC1A0KOYvlM7HWpQfsCu2z-PkwUHfn10S&index=5

Garden to Table’s ‘Be With a Tree’ Challenge is to find a tree that provides us with food, and to make a fruit crumble! You could use lots of different tree-grown fruits in this recipe – apples, pears, apricots, nectarines, peaches, feijoas or a mixture of fruit.

You can grow a surprise garden by collecting leaf litter, keeping it warm and moist and seeing
what grows. It’s best to start this investigation during July or August

Don’t throw away your leftover or used tea bags. Grow seedlings in them instead!

Race to collect the reasons plants can harm health (and some examples) as you move around the game board!

You can use red cabbage to make your own pH indicator strips to test the freshwater around where you live.

This book is designed to address children's ideas about living things and to provide building blocks for understanding classification patterns for groupings of plants and animals.

We all love watching manu in the garden. Why not make your
garden more attractive for birds?

Many of our native birds eat nectar, fruit, and insects. You can help supplement their food by making and setting up a bird feeder in your garden.

Matariki is a cluster (group) of stars that set during May/June, and rise during June/July annually. The rising of the Matariki star cluster signifies the Māori new year, a time to celebrate new lives, and those who have passed on, with kai (food), waiata (song), and haka (dance), a time for reflection, planning, and coming together as a whānau. Māori tūpuna (ancestors) look to Matariki to time preservation of crops for winter, and to predict the success of the coming year’s harvest.

We depend on plants for the oxygen we breathe, many foods, fibres, building materials, medicines and fuels, and for the pleasures of beautiful flowers. Agriculture, horticulture, forestry, conservation of natural habitats and gardening all require an understanding of plants.

Put your senses to the test with this simple experiment related to your sense of smell.