Revenge of the Sheep

By Sara:

The college's sheep may look sweet and innocent, but they can also be pests.  This one looks particularly mischievous:

The reason this sheep is looking so smug is because she, along with her friends, ate the maize (corn) and beans growing in the garden my practical class planted.  And in fact, they ate it all on two separate occasions.  We planted in March, but because of the double attack of the sheep, the garden is at about the same level as the gardens of people who planted in May.

It has been a very frustrating and disappointing situation.  Although the maize has revived itself again and at least half of the beans weren't eaten, the purpose of the demonstration is kind of defeated.  It will be hard to compare the different techniques we were using in the garden when some parts of the garden were destroyed at different times from others and when some of the beans are now ahead of the maize.

Hopefully we'll still get a decent harvest from what is left, but I'm sad that I won't be able to use the garden to teach the students the things I was hoping to teach them.  However, if the maize that remains survives to be harvested, I'm planning to dry and grind it so we can make maize cake (cornbread) with the flour when it comes time to teach the students how to bake!