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Wednesday, February 29, 2012
Monday, February 27, 2012
Strawberries and Soil and Spinach -- oh my!
Today was a beautiful day, and a busy one! We built a free-form raised bed out of burlap, filled it with beautiful soil and vermicompost, and planted strawberries in it! (Thanks to Sarah at Walker Jones Farm for her generous donation of the dozen strawberry plants. We hope she comes to visit one day.)
We took soil samples of our garden space! Once the dozen or so samples dry out a bit, we'll mail them off to the lab for testing so we know ways we might need to amend the soil to help our veggies grow.
We planted spinach seeds in between the garlic in one of our raised beds. (Here the ladies are removing some of the mulch before planting...which we later used to mulch our newly planted strawberry beds. See Chris in the background, diligently taking a soil sample?)
We made delicious black bean hummus! (Recipe to be posted soon....)
We added food scraps to our compost bin out in the garden! And all of this before dinnertime. Amazing. But that's what the members of the Eco-Friendly Group are: AMAZING.
We took soil samples of our garden space! Once the dozen or so samples dry out a bit, we'll mail them off to the lab for testing so we know ways we might need to amend the soil to help our veggies grow.
We planted spinach seeds in between the garlic in one of our raised beds. (Here the ladies are removing some of the mulch before planting...which we later used to mulch our newly planted strawberry beds. See Chris in the background, diligently taking a soil sample?)
We made delicious black bean hummus! (Recipe to be posted soon....)
We added food scraps to our compost bin out in the garden! And all of this before dinnertime. Amazing. But that's what the members of the Eco-Friendly Group are: AMAZING.
Monday, February 6, 2012
Our club has a name... and a blog!
Boy oh boy was today an exciting day.
In our third meeting of the semester, we talked a bit more about composting and shredded cardboard boxes for the compost bins we built for our garden last week.
We cooked sweet potato tacos and guacamole from scratch (and ate them together, of course).
We made new signs for our classroom to help our new club members sort leftovers into compost, recycling, and trash containers.
And we voted on the new name for our after school club because, well, "the garden club" didn't quite sum up all that we do. We do quite a bit in the garden, but there's so much more to it, we realized as we wrote and talked about what we've been up to since October and what we plan to do going forward... By a landslide victory of 9 votes, "The Eco-Friendly Group" triumphed over "Going Green" and "The Physical Club" and "The Plant Police." (Eco-friendly? Yep, that's about right.)
Now that we have a blog, get ready to meet the dynamic and devoted next generation of world changers: The Eco-Friendly Group at Drew Freeman Middle School. Check back often to learn about what we're up to. Because we're always cooking, planting, building, and/or recycling something interesting....
In our third meeting of the semester, we talked a bit more about composting and shredded cardboard boxes for the compost bins we built for our garden last week.
We cooked sweet potato tacos and guacamole from scratch (and ate them together, of course).
We made new signs for our classroom to help our new club members sort leftovers into compost, recycling, and trash containers.
And we voted on the new name for our after school club because, well, "the garden club" didn't quite sum up all that we do. We do quite a bit in the garden, but there's so much more to it, we realized as we wrote and talked about what we've been up to since October and what we plan to do going forward... By a landslide victory of 9 votes, "The Eco-Friendly Group" triumphed over "Going Green" and "The Physical Club" and "The Plant Police." (Eco-friendly? Yep, that's about right.)
Now that we have a blog, get ready to meet the dynamic and devoted next generation of world changers: The Eco-Friendly Group at Drew Freeman Middle School. Check back often to learn about what we're up to. Because we're always cooking, planting, building, and/or recycling something interesting....
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