As part of the TAP and courtesy of the VFF’s “Kids To Ag” project, our Year Preps learnt that they are never to young to learn about healthy plants, animals, ‘Growing Well’ and the scrumptiousness of chocolate pizzas! After reinforcing their knowledge about what plants need to grow well during their excursion to the Heytesbury and District Landcare Network nursery and Timboon Berry World last week, this week we visited the alpacas at GORGE Chocolates and the Chocolate Alpaca. ‘Alpaca Whisperer’ Matty Delahey, introduced the students to some of Ian and Angela Preuss’ 1,500 Suri and Huacaya alpacas. Precious, the friendly Suri alpaca, was a favourite with her dreadlocks and the Preps could compare her with the fluffier Huacaya alpacas. Matty and the students discussed the alpaca’s needs including water, food, shelter, fresh air and company and learnt that the alpacas are shorn once a year, have their toe nails and teeth trimmed and receive their vaccinations. We learnt that baby alpacas are called cria, mothers are called hembras or dams, fathers are called machos or sires and that they originally came from Peru. Chocolate pizzas were then created with input from Angela, Brooke and Sophie and these were decorated with lollies, sprinkles, licorice, and chocolate alpacas. After a picnic at GORGE Chocolates, our tired Preps boarded Popes bus back to school to read the adventures of Macca the Alpaca and to share their chocolate pizzas with their families – maybe! What a scrumptious excursion! Comments are closed.
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