Today it was Year Four's turn to harvest kai for our Matariki Hangi. We dug about for the last of our kumara and harvested big round cabbages. The worms in our worm farms will be very happy, because they got all the spare leaves and stems. They'll make lovely compost for growing more kai.
We also reviewed how Maori brought Kumara to Aotearoa. Then we learnt how Chinese immigrants, Mr & Mrs Gock helped the kumara by developing a disease resistant type by watching this mini doc.
What did you learn today?
Harvey "Black rot can rot the kumara when it's too wet"
Maymay "Whakaoterangi brought kumara"
"The leaves of the kumara are heart shaped" Ella
"Mr and Mrs Gock helped the kumara from black rot" Ciara
Ella "When the leaves are yellow it's time to dig up the kumara".
"Mr and Mrs Gock gave the new type of kumara for free to NZ farmers" Alice.
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