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Room 16 Action Plan Nau mai haere mai ki Akomanga 16. Welcome to our Wiki page. We as a class have been working together looking at the cultural garden at the school. It has not been easy as we have had to look at a number of aspects - including stopping people walking on the garden and slugs eating our plants. Another challenging aspect has been trying to observe and implement Maori tikanga/ protocols in our Te Mara o Matariki/Matariki Garden. Te maramataka/ the lunar calendar and the seasons determine when planting occurs and finding traditional Maori crops has been difficult. Diagram of garden to be added **Diary note:** 4/11/09 - //Our baby silverbeet plants have been eaten by slugs and snails. The research team will look at organic ways to solve this problem. This could be a mini project done by some of us. (Written by Prishika)// **Update of Planting of our Garden** Mrs Sami is visiting on the 4/11/09 to Te Papapa school to see Whaea Kelly and look at their Matariki garden. Here is a link to an article written about Te Papapa's Matariki garden
 * Margaret has visited the Horizon Gardens and has been offered some help finding the right plants.
 * WE have been trying to use the connections we made during TePapapa's visit. Whaea Kelly has a Matariki garden and she is going up north in the holidays to get some Maori potatoes and kumara. She has promised to share them. Kia ora!