The Tūī room are busy planting seedlings for our garden.

We have been busy with production this week, but we also have been planting our seeds for our very own Pukeko and Tūī garden. The children are fasinated by the life cycles of living and familiar things, this is a great opportunity to watch a plant grow from a tiny seedling into a useable plant. We will prepare the ground in term four as most of our seedlings will be up and hardy enough to put in the ground. We are also planting a bee garden. Bees are not the only pollinating plant creatures to whom we owe the beauty of nature. The main problem is that they are the main ones and their existence is now threatened. If we add the overall reduction of insects’ species and wild bees in particular due to urbanization, acid rain and other contaminations, then these small creatures become absolutely necessary in order to make nature survive and help the food industry keep its current form.  Here's to having hot soup in the winter months.