After a long period of waiting, planning and preparing we finally started to create the Garden beds at Suzanne Aubert Catholic School!

Suddenly it all happened with Dads as builder volunteers helping us build the raised beds and putting them into place.

The kids were really hands on, lining the timbers to protect the wood and filling the first beds in the organic way with layers of cardboard, twigs, leaves and topped with good quality garden soil.

We all worked really hard with shovelling, lifting and moving the wheelbarrow around.

Did you know that one garden bed nearly took us twenty wheelbarrows full of soil to fill it!

We’ve planted the first bed as a Rongoa garden (a herb garden) which is really special as Suzanne Aubert was an herbalist and we would like to continue with this tradition.

We planted an apple tree as a statement in the centre of the garden, in years to come it will give the children a shady spot in summer to sit under and fresh juicy apples from the tree to enjoy.

We are so grateful and have to say a big “Thank You” to Farmer Autovillage, Mitre 10 Pāpāmoa and Rotary Club Pāpāmoa who supported this project and helped make this project come true.