This afternoon the children skipped over to the polytunnel to help harvest corn they’ve watched grow from tiny seedlings. After uprooting them the children as a team carried whole plants out to the gravel area then discussed, looked, and felt the roots of the corn that helped it grow whilst keeping its stalk upright. The children then helped to rip the corn cobs from the stalks, once all the corn cobs were removed, we played pass the parcel. With music playing the children pa

This morning the children headed into the polytunnel to help prepare our nursery lunch by picking tons of tomatoes. The tomatoes have been blooming at the nursery that the kids picked too many to go into the soup. Nothing was wasted though as, the children ate the rest of the tomatoes as a mid-morning snack. Tasting the big red and yellow tomatoes and devouring the small cherry tomatoes, the children have learned that ripe tomatoes come in all shapes, sizes, and colours. Have

Our garden is thriving with delicious fruit and vegetables, so the time has come for the kids to get their hands dirty and harvest their spoils. The potatoes are ready! Planted late May by the children in grow bags, the potatoes had flowered and started to die back when their bags were tipped upside down into a tuff tray for the children to rummage through the dirt and find their spoils. When all the potatoes were found the children using brushes cleaned away all the dirt on