Harvest Festival

The school year wrapped up at QE Elementary with a fantastic harvest festival. Parent volunteers, classes and teachers baked bread, roasted potatoes, harvested greens, prepared salad, two types of hummus, blueberry muffins, and apple cobbler, and gathered in the courtyard to celebrate the years harvest.

The pre-harvest garden

As the school year winds down, the garden is looking full, just in time for the harvest party later this week. 

Garlic

Mr. Crisp and Division 18 harvested their 6 tubs of garlic on Monday afternoon.  The bulbs were amazing, and will be roasted, or baked into garlic and potato foccacia for the harvest party on Thursday.  

all this from just 4 tubs

Potato Harvest

Monday lunch time saw keen members of the QE Green Team harvesting the potatoes.  The tubs were dumped out, and the kids enthusiastically rooted around, squealing with delight with every tuber and worm that they found - just like a huge treasure hunt.

let them grow

watch them flower

wait for them to wilt

Dump them out and dig around

a sure sign of healthy soil

the prize...

45 kg of fresh organic potatoes