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Learn about composting, growing food or basic gardening skills.
Experiences
We have three exciting gardening programmes to choose from depending on your focus and the age of your students.
Green Waste to Garden Gold
This programme is suitable for years 4-8. It focuses on how forests are the ultimate recyclers!
After a walk in the forest to see how nature recycles, students learn about:
- the nutrient cycle
- the role of decomposers
- how we can all turn waste into compost for our gardens.
Students will:
- explore the worm farm
- assemble a compost bin
- learn the art of layering compost
- try making compost themselves.
Create your own Garden
This programme is suitable for years 0-6. Students learn about the wonders of gardening through a range of hands-on activities in our children's garden.
Using a variety of tools, they will:
- prepare and mulch A layer of material like bark, leaves or grass clippings spread on top of soil to keep it moist and reduce weeds. the soil
- plant and water the garden
- clean up afterwards.
They will also:
- prepare seeds for germination
- discover the secrets of successful seedlings
- examine and feed the worms in the worm farm.
Along the way, students will:
- become familiar with the life-cycle of plants
- find out what plants need to survive
- learn to create and maintain a garden.
Patch to Plate
This programme is suitable for years 0-4. The aim is to get students to 'dig' their veggies, in every sense of the word!
Students learn about:
- the various parts of plants we eat, for example, that carrots are roots and cabbages are leaves
- the plant 'heroes' that make up our everyday foods.
Students then get an opportunity to enjoy and learn the basics of growing veggies and planting their own seeds to take away with them.
Year level
Years 0-8
Learning areas
Science Living World
Maximum students
100 students
Location
Available dates
All year
Cost
Half-day programme: $7 per student
Contact details
Email: botanicgardens.schoolbookings@aucklandcouncil.govt.nz
Address
Auckland Botanical Gardens
102 Hill Road
The Gardens
Auckland
Manurewa
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