New Pics from Mr. Swan's Class!

Is it Summer yet?

Despite the cold and rainy weather (will it ever end??), Mr. Swan's class has gotten out to the garden several times in the last month. We took planted of the seeds donated by Bridlemile students into flats in the greenhouse, and then have transplanted those that are big enough. Students also started a bed of potatoes and did a lot of greenhouse clean up.

Mrs. Deacon took her after school class, OMG (Outstanding Modern Girls), and planted flower seeds using eggshells. If only it was warmer!

Our garden blog is also featured on Jamie Oliver's Newsletter as a blog of the month!

Thank you Bridlemile!

It's been awhile since we updated (the garden has been hibernating). But we want to thank students from Bridlemile for their generous donation and new partnership with our garden. This week, pots with seeds and a few other supplies were delivered - courtesy of Ms. Koning's 4th grade class. The students here are very excited to get some spring weather and get to planting.

A couple weeks ago we spent an afternoon cleaning up, weeding, and prepping the beds for planting as soon as the weather gets a little warmer. Also, we are hoping to replace some of the lights in the greenhouse and fix the heater so that we can grow more year round.

We will post pics very soon - thank you Ms. Konig's class!!!!!!!

Beet Harvest

Mr. Swan's class harvest almost 30 pounds of beets this week. The beets were taken home by students and donated to the school backpack program so that students of all grades could enjoy the harvest. The 6th graders are headed to Outdoor School this Sunday so they will be taking a short gardening break!

Info about our new playground & community garden space...

Grants have been approved and we will be building a new playground in a couple months, but we are also hoping to expand some green space into a community garden. Here is a link to a blog with information on those projects:

HP Playground & Community Garden

Summer Wrap Up and into Fall...

Here are some final pics from our Summer School class (field trips included).

Fall is officially here and Mr. Swan's class already harvested a bunch of beets, cabbage, and carrots and cooked Borscht together. More to come....

Cooking from our garden

In addition to Mr. Swan leading the gardening science class during this summer's session, Mrs. Deacon is teaching a healthy cooking class. We are using food harvested from the garden to cook using several supplies donated through Donors Choose. 

Thus far we have made several steamed and grilled vegetables, and various salads with dressings. Today we made salsa and grilled mushrooms. The students are learning terms for cooking (i.e. the difference between baking and broiling, or grilling and sauteing), and also the proper ways to prepare foods (i.e. how to hold a knife). 

They are so eager to learn new skills, and believe it or not they don't mind doing the dishes :)