With our newly established Terrace my students and I set about the task of making the terrace ready to grow the three sisters, maize, beans and pumpkins, an indigenous method to grow crops together. Firstly, we had to calculate how many mounds we would put in the terrace. At a spacing of 0.5m from the […]
We have just got back after the summer hiatus and have visited the garden with my new, huge, group of Agricultural Plant Science Elective students – 21 of them! One of the biggest classes I have ever had. The garden is a bit overgrown after the summer. The terrace needs to be finished so that […]
Towards the end of the first year of agriculture the students and I thought it would be interesting to try and grow pumpkins for Halloween celebrations commencing in October. We were kindly provided with pumpkin seeds by Dr Casey Hurley and Ms. Amanda Smith (an ex 6th grade teacher). We prepared the land with agriculture […]
