Chickens and beans!

This week we have been learning how to keep the Earth Trust chickens happy and healthy. We topped up their water and fed them – our hens are friendly and like to eat from our hands. They even like a cuddle now and then!

They lay us lots of tasty eggs which we collect and carry carefully to the kitchen for the Earth Trust staff to eat. Sometimes we get to make them into cakes too!

We've also had a check on the peas and beans we sowed back in February. The broad beans were ready for planting out in the vegetable patch. 

Each student dug a hole with a trowel, carefully removed the plant from the pot and placed it in its new home.

 

It is especially important to water our beans with the dry weather we’ve had recently. We will water them every week at the beginning of our session.

We are looking forward to eating our broad beans later in the year!

New term, new school year, new students!

It seems like only yesterday that we were waving the students off for their long summer holiday, but here we are again, ready for a new year!

Our first group back are from Bishopswood School. There are a few familiar faces, but also some new recruits which is always exciting for everyone.

We started off the course with an introduction to using tools safely, sawing ourselves wooden name badges and drilling holes in the top for the string.

We coloured in our name badges and wrote our names on one side. We’ll use them to hang over the boot pegs in the ‘scout hut’, so that we remember which wellies to put on next time!

When we’d finished making our badges, we went to meet the Earth Trust chickens and give them some food and water.

It was a great start to the term, and we’re looking forward to many more sunny mornings together!