At the start of the holidays there was a Community Pantry set up on Rowandale Road, almost adjacent from Aarts Ave. This was terrific news for our Student Garden because it was brimming with lush, leafy green produce that was ready for harvest.
Maya Angelou once said: When you learn, teach, when you get, give...
Thank you to the Rowandale/Manurewa community for giving our students mahi and determination a place to go during the school holidays. We were able to fill our whole car boot with vegetables!
Silverbeet is full of iron! Here's a quick recipe for using Silverbeet:
We pulled out plenty of other greens! Delicious and healthy eating is in store. There was also a couple of heads of cabbage!
This is Liam Laulu, super keen and energetic in the student gardens. He enjoyed knowing that other people will be able to eat Rowandale School's efforts!
This is Sakalia Laulu, Liam's brother, he loves helping others and his Mum (Miss Atkins from Aroha 2).
Hope you have all had a safe holiday, See you back at school on Monday everybody! We love Maya Angelou's words- "When you learn, teach... When you get, GIVE."
Awesome work whanau.... It's nice Rowandale is helping the community with fresh vegetables straight from the garden. Keep up the good work.
ReplyDeleteKia Ora, Atkins-Laulu family what an awesome example you are to serve the community. I will be showing Aroha 4 this blog a great introduction to our Hauora topic :)
ReplyDeleteThat is such a caring, sharing attitude! Fantastic!
ReplyDeleteKa pai Aroha 2 what a great way to value the importance of Papatuanuku through nurturing the life from the land...
ReplyDeleteAwesome stuff! A great example of the Rowandale PRIDE values. Thank you for leading by example. God Bless!!!
ReplyDeleteWOW!!! This is AMAZING!!! How cool to see Miss Atkins-Laulu and her son getting behind our Gardens to Table incentive ... and by the looks, they both have done an amazing job!!! Unbelievable to see such delicious and healthy looking vegetables grown from our school gardens! Again, AMAZING WORK!!!
ReplyDeleteAmazing buddy, what an awesome effort by you and your little ones. Teaching them and our students at Rowandale such good values... love it!
ReplyDeleteGreat Job !!! Miss Atkins-Laulu for setting a wonderful example by serving the community with fresh and healthy vegetables straight from Rowandale School's Garden.
ReplyDeleteA big huge thank u for the veges since opening the pataka Kai there has been so many families in need lots of people I met that day felt so blessed to be able to take home some fresh veges they were gone within the hour shows there's a real need out there and with the holidays I wanted our families to know that there is some Kai no questions asked no filling out forms just take what u need leave what u can...there's been many of our families from our school using the Pataka Kai so from me and my family a big huge thank u xx
ReplyDeleteMiss Atkins-Laulu and sons you have shown that we can all do our bit to help each other! Thank you so much for spreading the love to our Rowandale whanau and the
ReplyDeleteManurewa community. I am sure the homes that benefit from a helping of healthy veges are feeling blessed!
This is such an amazing thing to do ... Thank you Mr Savage and Miss Atkin for organising this ... Mitaki Lahi
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