September

Time to harvest! It is finally time to harvest!

Much of what we plant we have to harvest before September because many of the berries, vegetables and flowers we planted would otherwise be overripe. In some cases, the children have been a little impatient and picked strawberries before they ripened and thus learnt that green strawberries are not as sweet as red strawberries.

Our school kitchen is also involved in the harvest and takes some of our sugar peas. One department harvested a lot of sugar peas and our kitchen was kind enough to equally distribute them to all departments as “Today's vegetable”.

We harvested four cucumbers in three different sizes in September. The children got to measure, weigh and taste three of them. The children, after tasting the cucumbers, came to the conclusion that the youngest cucumber had not matured, the eldest cucumber was overripe and the middle was perfect. The smallest and the largest cucumber tasted bitter and not good however the middle one tasted like the cucumbers we usually get from our school kitchen. When the children cut up the largest cucumber, they were surprised to find it had a triangle shaped hole. Since the cucumber did not taste so good, we decided to use the cucumber as a mold and made triangles with them.

Our Outdoor pedagogical department grew potatoes that they harvested with the children. The children were allowed to wash the potatoes and cook them. Then they took the potatoes with them and ate them for lunch in the forest. The educators had told the kitchen that they had home-grown potatoes that they would eat for lunch, by doing this the department saved both the preschool’s and the school kitchen’s resources.