Apple Wassailing in January 2020

Happy New Year Everyone! 

Welcome to Our first Orchard Garden Workshop in 2020! 

The theme of the day was School Learning Garden Basics & Wassailing the Apple Trees!



It was our first gathering in 2020, we had a warm and nice welcome to our new friends, and brainstormed in small groups, to discuss about why and how to teach in a school garden.

with our warm&tasty wassail bow made with ginger, cinnamon stick, star anise, cloves and mulled apple juice.





We walked to the garden together to wassail apple trees and harvest fresh vegetables in our Orchard Garden... as you may see, there are plentiful variety out there! Can you name any of those?

Broccoli, Green Onion, Parsley, Garlic, Leek and more...

Brussel Sprout

The heavy snow in the beginning of 2020 seems didn't beat the spirits of the plants, a great majority of them survived. We had such great harvest! 

We learned about the UK Wassail traditions and sang wassail song.

Our wassail jolly wassail!
Joy come to our jolly wassail!
How well they may bloom, how well they bear,
So we may have apples next year!

We wassailing the apple trees and other fruit trees, we  laid slices of apples at the roots and 'howling' as performed the rite to "bless" the trees to produce a good crop in the forthcoming season.



We made Caldo Verde, the Portuguese Green Soup, Homemade Hummus, and Herbed Mushroom and many more! Everyone had a great time tasting and chatting! 

Spring is coming.

We wish everyone healthy, joyful and exuberant! 

Just like the rosemary we picked and water-planted, it has been continually growing its new branches and roots. Isn't that amazing?




It was such a wonderful day in the Orchard Garden, we wish everyone all the best in 2020! We will see you in our next workshop :)