The kai we planted in koanga is ready to harvest! In just 45 minutes K1 had dug up enough kumara to feed the Kauri Hub for our Matariki Hangi and there's still more to come. Hopefully enough for the whole kura. Tu meke! #Enviroschools
Year Six also researched how to grow and harvest kumara and the history of kumara in Aotearoa. We were amazed to hear about Whakaoterangi, the wahine Maori who bought kumara to Aotearoa in the 13th centuary. We also learnt about Mr & Mrs Gock, Chinese refugees who helped breed a disease resistant kumara and then gifted it free to the farmers of Aotearoa. You can find their heart warming story here
Find K2's Instructions for how to harvest Kumara here
Find K2's Biographies and Fact Files here
Kumara Recount's by K1:
Written by Annie , ALEXANDRA , YUMI
Yumi’s experience:
Digging up the kumura is a really fun experience, we even found like about 30 kumara in the garden beds. Annie, Alexandra,Lisa, Mia, Stella and me, worked as hard as we could while laughing and having fun!🍠
Written by Annie
Our group made a very interesting meme. Everytime we are digging and trying find a kumara , when we saw purple roots and when we pulled it and it broke then we would just say “ it’s a worm , 😈die!”Our group harvested 30 kurmaras!We were all amazed at how many kumaras we dug up in total with the whole K1.
🍠Written by Alexandra🍠
At the Edible gardens, we helped Mrs Daniel pull out the kumara and vines out of the garden beds. We go put in groups of six. I was with Lisa, Yumi, Annie, It was a hard process but we got through it.
Kumara stuff 🍠
Today I learnt that kumaras are SUPER DIRTY!
We got dirt up our eyes and NOSE . It was super annoying and disgusting.
We got big ones and small ones and looong skinny ones.
In a couple weeks we will have a hangi with the kumaras we dug out.
In my group we dug out a lot. Aiden
Harvesting Kumara
We learned how to pull out the kumara from the garden.
When we were pulling out the kumara we found clay it was very fun to play with.
What we could do better was to be more careful whilst pulling out the kumara.
We found some very interesting shapes and sizes of kumara. In fact someone even found a massive one!
At the end we felt so good because we harvested so many wonderful kumara that we will eat for the hangi.
(we also planted some onion seedlings at the end!)
Gabby,Olivia a,Aiden,Evie,Jake b and Emily.
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