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!

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

Students will have fun growing plants while learning interesting information about garden science. This simple lesson plan explains the activity as well as giving instructions for how students should look after their plants.

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

This fun lesson plan involves children discussing the important parts of a successful farm before putting their ideas into practice and making one for themselves.

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.

This resource can help you plan, implement and take action on restoration projects throughout the school year.

With this simple plant experiment, you can get a little plant growing with just a dried bean! It’s a great way to get in touch with nature and watch your little bean grow.

This issue delves into the ground, pulls apart the very soil itself to find out exactly why it is so important, how it is related to land use and why we should never take soil and land for granted.