Glenham School – 26 October 2017
On Thursday 26 October 2017, twenty Glenham School children came to the nursery accompanied by Mark Oster, teacher Karen, farmer David Clark and parents. The aim was for the children to check out the way the Nursery was run, what structures and facilities were needed and how to grow native plants for their project on David and Alana Clarks farm.
The group was divided into two and Mark took one group down around the pond looking at the plants and other creatures along the way. Then a game of “eels and ladders” with a native plant theme captivated the students.
Meanwhile back at the potting shed Chris showed how to sow seeds, how and when different things were done in the nursery, some plant identification and plant matching and some nursery work which involved “pricking out” seedlings into small pots and also “potting up” plants in small pots into planter bags (PB3’s).
An added bonus was finding a koura in a fish trap in the pond and haveing a close (but not too close!) look at it.
After lunch in the Education Centre the group went out into the nursery and found out what was needed to start their own nursery – a water supply, shade houses or cloches, plant standing frames, a place for potting mix delivery and potting benches, preferably under cover. Then the students helped to choose and load 100 native plants onto David Clark’s trailer for planting in their project in a weeks time. Chris
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