Illustration: Pati Aguilera, from Rooftop Garden (Barefoot Books) 2022-05-19 14:50:08
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DELICIOUS GARDEN DELIGHTS
Activities, recipes, stories (and more!) created for family sharing
LET’S EAT!
Wash your hands before you start, and always have a grown-up with you when you cook!
Homemade Hummus
Makes: 4-6 servings
Time: 10 minutes
LET’S GATHER:
• I CUP canned chickpeas
• 1/8 cup smoofb (light) tahini.
• 1/4 cup olive oil
• 1 garlic clove
• Juice of one medium-sized lemon
• 4–8 tbsp water
• Optional: pinch of cumin
Place the chickpeas, tahini, olive oil, garlic clove and lemon juice into a blender or food processor. Mix for about 30 seconds or until you have a thick paste.
Add in the salt. Continue to mix, slowly adding spoonfuls of water until you have a smooth and creamy paste.
Sprinkle with cumin and serve.
LET’S GATHER:
Picnic kabobs
LET’S GATHER
• । large carrot
• Hummus
• 8 slices whole grain bread (small loaf)
• 8 half-inch slices of cucumber, cut in half
• 4 cherry tomatoes
• Vegetable peeler
• Table knife
• Cutting board
• 4 small wooden skewers
Makes: 4
Time. 10 minutes
Peel the outer skin from the carrot and cut off the base.
Continue to peel and make long carrot curls.
Spread the hummus onto a piece of whole grain bread. Cover with another piece of bread to make a sandwich. Repeat with the remaining hummus and bread. (Use our recipe on the left, or store-bought hummus works too!)
Use the table knife to remove the crusts and cut the sandwiches into quarters.
Place one sandwich piece onto the cuffing board and push a skewer through the middle.
Repeat this using a piece of cucumber, a few carrot curls, a sandwich, a cherry tomato, a sandwich, carrot curls, cucumber and another sandwich. Make sure you always push the skewer through a chunk of food and onto the board.
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DELICIOUS GARDEN DELIGHTS
ACTIVITY: Three Sisters Garden
Summer is the time to start thinking about foods we will need to harvest in the fall. Let’s plan our own “three sisters” garden!
Plants, like people, often help one another out. Sometimes known as the “three sisters,” Indigenous peoples in North America discovered that sweet corn, beans and squash work well when planted together.
45 minutes; 4 weeks later, 15 minutes Spring/Summer Outdoor
LET’S GATHER:
• spade or fork
• watering can
• bucket of finished, finely sifted compost
• sweet corn seeds
• runner bean seeds
• squash seeds
LET’S GET STARTED:
Clear a circular space about 6 ft (1.8 m) in diameter in a part of your garden that gets plenty of direct sunlight.
Prepare the soil in this area by watering, digging and adding finished, finely sifted compost until the soil is loose and crumbly.
Create a mound of soil about I2 in (30 cm) high and about 5 ft (1.5 m) across.
Plant 6 sweet corn seeds in the middle of the mound, about I2 in (30 cm) apart.
Water your sweet corn regularly and watch if grow.
Approximately 4 -8 weeks later when the sweet corn is about 8 in (20 cm) tell, plan! the bean seeds in a circle around it about 4 in (10 cm) away from the sweet corn.
At the same time, plant 4 squash seeds spaced evenly around the outer edges of the mound.
Watch your Three Sisters work together to grow tell and strong.
Tip
When the plants start producing their fruits and seeds, make a soup or stew and enjoy the harvest!
Rooftop Garden | STORY BY DANNA SMITH
Watch the animated video & listen to the song at www.harefoothoohs.com/rooftopgarden
A rooftop garden is what we need —Friends and family all agree.
A garden starts with hardy seeds.
A rooftop garden is what we need.
Dig a hole and in they go.
Sow the seeds with a shovel and hoe.
Plant them, pat them, row by row.
Dig a hole and in they go.
Grow, garden! Grow, garden!
Grow, garden! Grow, grow, grow!
Lots of sun and a little shade
Bring lettuce, carrots, mint and sage.
Mark them with the signs we made.
Lots of sun and a little bit of shade.
Water the soil when it gets dry.
Time to wait till -me-oh-my!
Tiny shoots reach for the sky.
Water the soil when it gets dry.
Grow, garden! Grow, garden!
Grow, garden! Grow, grow, grow!
Pull the weeds and make a stack.
Pesky weeds! We fill a sack.
Pick them, pull them, they grow back!
Pull the weeds and let’s make a stack.
Garden friends fly to and fro,
Spreading pollen as they go —
Dust that helps the veggies grow.
Garden friends, they fly to and fro.
Grow, garden! Grow, garden!
Grow, garden! Grow, grow, grow!
Grab your gloves and fill a jug.
Gather slimy snails and slugs.
Say goodbye to hungry bugs!
Grab your gloves and fill a bug jug.
Time to harvest our rooftop crop.
Pick and pull and twist —don’t stop!
Fill the baskets to the top.
Time to harvest our own rooftop crop.
A garden feast! Oh, what a treat.
Prepare the food and take a seat.
Pass a plate and let’s all eat.
A garden feast! Oh, what a treat.
Yum, garden! Yum, garden!
Yum, garden! Yum, yum, yum!
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