The Pleasant Point Primary School garden has been something that the Green Team and a Community Gardening Group have been working hard to develop over the last year. We have been focusing on building up the soil to increase the quality of the soil and its growing capability.

We have been exceptionally lucky to receive a great amount of support from our local community in developing our school Garden. Fulton Hogan sponsored mushroom compost and Duncan Steele donated sheep dags to help prepare our soil. Pleasant Point Lions gifted us a gardening shed which has been set up beside the garden to store our gardening equipment.

At the end of last year we were lucky enough to be supported by Mitre 10 Mega who donated a range of seeds for our school garden. We planted potatoes, sweet corn, tomatoes, spring onion, celery, silverbeet, carrots, radishes, broccoli, cauliflower, and pattypan. Our soil preparations paid off and we had a very successful growing year. The garden was bursting with good quality produce. The children enjoyed harvesting, eating and sharing the produce as well as learning a little bit more about gardening. Some of our produce was even sold at the Farmers Market. Mitre 10 have also helped us with other needs for our garden such as donating fertilizer, a watering can and crop cover.

The Green team has been super busy over Term One, harvesting all our summer produce and prepping our garden for the winter months. This week we have been busy clearing the garden and planting a mustard, lupin, oat mix, kindly donated by Temuka Seed. This will help feed the soil with rich nutrients over the winter months.

A huge thank you for all the support we have received for our school garden: Mitre 10 Mega, Pleasant Point Lions, Temuka Seed, Fulton Hogan and Duncan Steele. We are extremely grateful for all your support and we look forward to sharing our produce as our garden continues to grow.

Another big thank you goes out to the leaders of the Community Gardening Group, Neville Burt and Penny Davison who have been the driving force behind the success of our school garden, offering their wisdom and support. Neville and Penny come into school to help teach our tamariki about gardening and keep the garden up and running.

We are so proud of our school garden and our students for their hard work. Again, this wouldn't be possible without all the support we have received from everyone in the community. We feel very lucky to have so many wonderful people and organisations on our side.

The Green Team