Our house

We built walls, floors and a roof and then each made a 'room'.

'Will the insects like their house? What will live in our house? How can we feed our insects? Can we make a house that a slater will like? What else could we use?'

Childrens questions are amazing.

Our house is a start. Who knows where it will go.

Oh what to plant!

By the time the leaves fall off the bamboo there could be; Peas, beans, cucumbers, gourds, luffa, pumpkins, nasturtums, morning glory........................

Small places for children are so easy to make anywhere.

Living house

Our house is growing!!!

Tomato stakes

Stakes are in, compost spread, lettuce understory planted, watering trench dug, basil and tomato seedlings waiting in tunnel house.

Ruatahuna

We planted a jungle of seeds.

The children chose what they wanted to eat, sorted seeds into guilds, made the pots and then planted.

Come summer they will have an edible landscape of; purple peas, popcorn, sorgum, sunflowers, watermelon, beans, tomatoes, basil...............