Felting

Morning everyone, Jenna has been enjoying her felting and this is one of her first attempts. She has made a Spring Fairy for our nature table. I think she is beautiful and I am very impressed!! Well done Jen.

Potato Wedges

Yesterday we all helped and cooked dinner together, it was really nice to have the whole family helping. We made a supper with food grown from our garden. We also made a big portion of potato wedges.

Here is Kye helping from his stove.

Here is our potato wegdes recipe, it is really divine:

Take as many potatoes as you want, and cut them into wedges. Place them in a good sized dish and pour Olive oil all over them, then sprinkle Rosemary and herb salt over the wedges. I usually add about 1 clove of crushed garlic as well.

Move the wedges around before they go into the oven and make sure they are well covered with all the ingredients.

Set your oven to 180 degrees C and bake for about an hour, or until your potatoes are cooked. Take them out of the oven and move them around in the sauce again and then return them to the oven and grill for a short while, just to make them a little crispy. Be careful not to burn them.

Here is the finished product, they truly do taste amazing, enjoy!!!!

Our Beetroot

I am so excited about the veggies coming out of our new veggie garden. We dug the new veggie garden with a double digging technique and all the time it took to dig is really paying off. I picked these beetroots today and they are lovely and big and look so juicy. We are going to have them for supper with fresh spinach from our garden as well! It is the most exciting thing to be able to pop down to your garden and pick food for supper!

All the left over greens will be given to our chooks, rabbits and earthworms to eat.

Grade 3 Native American Block

Erin has just started her Native American block and we have begun with the Woodland people who lived in longhouses. She is enjoying this so much and I have discovered some lovely books written by Bonnie Shemie that are beautiful accounts of the dwelling places of different peoples. They are lovely to read.

In this photo we have made a fire and we are cooking stick bread. It is really tasty and easy to make. Just take some flour, water, salt to taste and butter. Mix this all together until you have a nice dough.

Find a long stick, sosatie sticks work well, and shape your dough around the end of the stick like the dough in the photo. Make sure it is not too thick on the stick or it will take too long to cook. Hold your dough on a stick just above the flame and it will cook nicely. Try not to let your stick go into the flame of it wiil burn and so will your dough. Check after a while and you will have lovely bread. It tastes delicious. Please be careful of the flames, I'm sure you will be.

This was a lovely activity for our Native American block if anyone has any other suggestions for activitites, I would love to hear them.

Mulberry Picking

Our fruit is slowly ripening in our garden, we have nectarines, peaches, plums, lemons, pomegranates, granadillas, prunes and a grape vine, that we made wine from last March. Our wine is finally ready and tastes delicious.

This is our mulberry tree that is just laden with fruit and everyone is taking a turn on the ladder picking mulberries. Fun, fun, fun....