Friday 16^th June 2017

Our first big harvest of 2017

 

After much effort we have finally made our first harvest of the year. Look at our lettuces…they are GIGANTIC!! We managed to keep the pests at bay and keep them well watered though the recent dry spell….our reward…42 perfect lettuces and some succulent rhubarb.

We also had a special visitor today. As much of our produce would be sold to 'The Crown' in Southwold, we invited their head chef (Rory) to take a look at the produce we would be growing for him to cook in their restaurant in 2017.

Our next job was to work out which crops Rory could take away with him today. As a result we also did some mathematics in our gardening slot this week. After working out the average of lettuce prices, based on the four biggest supermarket prices and adding a little for our ‘organic' approach, we decided that 60p would be a fair price to charge. A little multiplication later and we came up with a total of £25.20 for the lettuces with which the pupils would invoice Adnams themselves. Not a bad start at all!

Harvesting our iceberg lettuces.

The Lolla Rosa lettuces look juicy too!

Packaging the lettuces for transport to The Crown, Southwold.

Our next harvest was the rhubarb. This time we had to use our skills of estimation to work out a price. We weighed a bunch of stalks to give us a good idea of the cost per bunch. We then had to multiply that by the number of bunches of rhubarb that we had harvested. Again we discovered a total close to £25! That means that we have already surpassed our income from 2016…a great effort…well done ‘team Food for Thought!