Welcome to the Boot Up! Project

Welcome to Boot Up! Outdoor Learning with Falmouth Forest School

Tuesday, 23 November 2010

Garden Art - Leaf Printing

Making Christmas Wrapping paper using leaves as inspiration from the garden









The Big Squeeze

The First Press for the new Apple Press

We have borrowed the 'scratter' (apple crusher) from the Gardeners at Tremough Campus. We have picked up barrowloads of windfall apples in the orchards and off we go!
Pints of yummy fresh apple juice.... just so satisfying








Fixing the 'scratter' - a few technical hitches - a bucket and a bin bag and....Hey Presto!

Gardening & Garlic


It' so good to be back at the allotments, lots of work to do to get them up and running.
Garlic cloves dug up from last year's crop

Gone for a cuppa



Re-digging the beds
Compost Bins reinstated

Sunday, 21 November 2010

Pathways



One ton of woodchip




One muddy pathand lots of hard work
Safe paths

Fire Raising

Wood shavings, tissue and a flint

No matches necessary
from spark to a flame.... and fire!

Woodland Cricket

Inventive & impromptu cricket......take a handfull of grass, wrap it up in duck tape and Hey Presto! you have a cricket ball


Add a branch from a tree and three sticks and a sawn in half log and
WOW! you have Woodland Cricket! Fantastic Fun


Experiment Archimedes Screw......The Movie