Tuesday 20^th June 2017

Organic Growing

One of our aims as a business is to grow organic food. If we are going to sustain this (keep it going!) then we are going to need to make our own compost. This would also be a  great opportunity for us to investigate micro-organisms in science!

With class 3 keeping chickens, there was an opportunity for using the chicken manure to make our own compost, full of the rich nutrients that our plants would need to grow strong and healthy. Once produced, we might need to do a science experiment or two to work out an effective dose of our organic compost!

This afternoon we also need to replenish our lettuce beds which have been emptied from our first harvest. We have Italian ‘Canasta lettuce’ to fill the rear beds and cucumber plants for the poly tunnel. We will also need to prepare our first invoices to send to Adnams for the crops we have harvested so far.

Our business is a great way for us to learn our maths. It’s a great ‘reason’ for learning estimation, multiplication, division, percentages, ratios and much, much more. It makes us ‘think on our feet’ developing our mental maths skills in problem solving. A part of our maths challenge this year will be to keep a running total of all of our produce for this year. Up to June the business 'Vegetablesrus' has already made an impressive £50 which will eventually be spent of upgrading the garden further throughout 2017 and beyond. Well done team!