by chris | Dec 7, 2020 | Student Experiences, Uncategorized
Seoyeon Lauren Kim, Grade 10 Ava, FIB.:
As the first service since I came to this school, Incredible Edible was a very rewarding experience to me. I have learned many new things and skills not only about gardening and plants, but also have I learned many things about teamwork. Particularly I have experienced how important teamwork is as I could rely on our team. In many situations we didn’t know how to do certain tasks, but we always managed to find it out together. I certainly enjoyed going to our small garden at the transition between the maths block and the high school building every Thursday and to occasionally chop off a papaya tree, distinguish between weeds and plants and to clear the composts etc. Learning about new plants, how to garden new plants and how to take care of them was always fun and ‘incredible’! The few ‘edible’ treats, like the tea made of butterfly pea flowers that we picked ourselves, was very nice and refreshing to drink.
by chris | Dec 7, 2020 | Student Experiences, Uncategorized
Tsz Kei MOK Jasmine ,10HXi :
This is the first service I had at this UWC, Incredible Edible is truly an experience. It was an experience not many people could experience. We would gather after school, go down to the garden and start gardening. We learnt about how to distinguish different plants. We even used things we grew like Butterfly Pea flower to make a drink out of it. We don’t only grow plants to consume it, we grow them for the environment. Furthermore, I didn’t only learn about how plants grew, I learnt about teamwork and I developed friendships, made deeper connections with my fellow schoolmates. It is a lifetime experience to cut down a banana tree or just see plants grow in front of my eyes. I took away more than I expect from this service, and I would love to continue to learn after this experience.
by chris | Dec 7, 2020 | Student Experiences, Uncategorized
Yasheng Jiang(10HXi): This service is called “ Incredible Edible”. It is really incredible that we did so many things on the campus such as cutting down the banana tree and papaya tree, weeding the plants and composting the dead parts of the plant. There is a cycle in nature. When the plant is alive, it provides us with fruits and beauty. After it dies, it can give us natural fertilizer which is good for the plants’ health. The most unforgettable part is cutting down the banana tree and papaya tree. When we cut the banana tree. Everyone in the team cooperated with each other and successfully cut down most part of the banana tree. We didn’t know what to do at first, but we discussed it as a group and finally came out with an efficient way to cut down the tree. The second time, we dealt with the papaya tree. At that time, I knew that there is white milky liquid in the papayas. Although it looked a little bit weird of the liquid dripping on myself, I didn’t mind that. At last, I climbed up and picked the papayas down. The tree was put into the bin.
by chris | Nov 23, 2020 | Student Experiences, Uncategorized
Like anything that is placed in the garden, the monkey bars are made and placed for a specific reason. The purpose of the Monkey Bars is to aid or assist the beans to grow up instead of growing on each other. For the structure we made 3 poles holding the roof part of the structure. Then we tied some rope on the poles for more area for the beans to climb upon.
By, Leo Rhee
by chris | Nov 23, 2020 | Student Experiences, Uncategorized
One notable part of my experience in Incredible Edible this year has been teaching people who are new to the service about things in the garden. This is my second year in this service and my third year in a gardening service. Some of the things I’ve helped teach are; how to trim the plants, how to differentiate between a plant and a weed, etc. The main other differences have been that now I don’t have to do composting because I did it for almost all of last year. The other big difference is that now we have much less garden to tend to because the garden by the maths block has been closed off.
by chris | Nov 23, 2020 | Student Experiences, Uncategorized
I joined this service this year, and I’ve enjoyed almost everything that I did so far. The thing that I enjoyed the most is planting various plants and vegetables in the garden. During the process of planting, I moved plants that were planted in the small pots to our gardens and replanted them. At first, I was not confident as this was the first time I planted something by myself and worried about harming the roots of the plants. So I asked one of the teachers to teach me how to replant the plants safely. She told me to dig the hole deep enough so that the plants can stay stable. It was not easy for me to plant the crops properly, but once I’ve finished planting the first one, I could easily plant the rest of the plants. It was a good experience as I got to plant the vegetables for the first time and had an opportunity to observe many different plants.
