Te Tipua School vegetable gardeners (from left) Lucas Dickison (7), Briana Miller (8) and Ashley Stevenson (5) take their garden project very seriously.
As part of a term two and three inquiry into looking after the environment and promoting healthy eating, the young gardeners planted the 2008 vegetable garden and this time put netting over the plants to keep the rabbits away.
Te Tipua School principal Andrea Joyce said the pupils had asked themselves what they could do better and they had come up with a plan.
Te Tipua School staff Marilyn Katon and Debbie Nicolson went to an Eatable Garden Workshop in Invercargill earlier this year. The workshop was a joint project by the Heart Foundation, Public Health South, the University of Otago and Healthy Eating and Healthy Action.
So, armed with knowledge and determination, the school community is hoping there will be plenty of food for an upcoming barbecue.
Next year, the school will benefit from a new tunnel house funded by Public Health South.
