We ate the 3 Year pineapple!

 Mahalo Keiko Sensei for cutting up our pineapple to eat!

There girls were 6 and 7 years old when they planted the pineapple top. Now they are 9 and 10 years old and got to eat the pineapple fruit produced. WOW!  It was so juicy, sweet, and yummy too!

Our 1st Pineapple!

We harvested our first pineapple!  It is from the pineapple crown from a fruit salad activity when the current girls who are in Grade 4 studied Fruits of Hawaii in first grade. Only took 3 years.

Check out our sunflower seeds too!  The girls are taking home seeds to plant at home.

Meet Our Tomato Beanstalk

It started out as a lanky tomato plant in a pot in the STEAM Lab. It grew longer so we clipped it up onto a line. Before we knew it, it kept growing longer and longer!

 Now it is almost across the room and even had flower blossoms!

 Since it is indoors, Keiko Sensei pollinated the flowers with a paintbrush.

It worked!  We have tomatoes!

Our Amazing Tomato Beanstalk Science Experiment! 

The Best Cucumber Sandwiches

The girls learned how to make the best cucumber sandwiches. They were so good, we are going to make them for the next Tea Party!

We ate the entire tray of sandwiches! YUM!

Cucumber season in our Urban garden is now over. 

Time to plant something new!

Kale Brownies - Take 2

We harvested the last of the kale from the garden and made kale brownies again.  They were DELICIOUS!

Once again they were soooooooo ONO!

Let's Make Pesto!

We were finally able to harvest the basil from the garden.

 Pesto Pasta for Lunch!

Beautiful sunflowers!

The sunflowers are beginning to bloom in the Urban Garden.

The Garden Keeps Growing & Producing!

More Salad for lunch!

Here is a delicious kale, butter crunch, Manoa lettuce, and cucumber salad for lunch!

Cucumbers still keep coming! Ono!

 Sunflowers are now about 5 feet tall and flower buds are visible.

Butter Crunch Lettuce Wraps

We made delicious lettuce wraps with our fresh Butter Crunch Lettuce Wraps!

The meat was made out of ground turkey seasoned with hoisin sauce, shoyu, and garlic.

                                                                         Roll it up and YUM!

It was soooooo ONO!  The girls ate every bit!

Kuri Sunomono {pickled cucumbers}

The cucumber plants keep producing cucumbers so this week we made Japanese Cucumber Sunomono (pickled cucumber). We even made sunomono pickle sticks (no pic because we ate them all).

It is great seeing the girls try new things. Some are even eating things for the first time!

We also like to munch on plain cucumbers fresh off the vine. Here is Allyssa eating a cucumber for the first time. Yay!

PS: We made fresh squeezed lemonade (lemons not from our garden) with honey too for an afternoon treat.

The Great Kale Harvest!

The Sakura group harvested a lot of kale today.

Let's harvest kale! The Malama Sakura Garden had a lot to harvest!

 Let's chop kale!

 Add in the other ingredients.

 Mixing, Mixing, Mixing!

We had so much kale, we had kale salad for lunch too. 

We also munched on crackers and more cucumber yogurt dip.

 Leiah is happy with her fresh kale salad and cucumber yogurt dip!

Viola! This is what we made... Whole Wheat KALE BROWNIES!

No leftovers today. 

They were sooooooooo good!