To review the outcomes and produce of the vegetable gardens that our Year 9/10 AgHort students planted in first term, we welcomed The Place of Wonder and REAL Pizza and Pasta owner, Kylie Treble, into the classroom to introduce the students to regenerative horticulture. After introducing herself, her interests and her work history, Kylie involved the students in an activity that demonstrated how interconnected things are in the environment. The class was split in half and, after choosing an environment, they had to pick an element of that environment and pass a ball of wool between them if they thought there was a connection; eventually they ended up with a big spider web of wool. Kylie then took away one or two of the students to demonstrate how the web falls apart when things within the environment die or are destroyed. The class then examined the garden beds and Kylie spoke to the students about their crops and the pests they saw during the semester and how they could introduce perennials to ward off pests and revitalize the soil even further. Kylie explained that, at its core, regenerative gardening is about restoring soil health, nourishing the soil naturally, instead of depleting it or trying to fix it with artificial fertilisers and maintaining or improving gardens in an environmentally conscious way. Comments are closed.
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