Plant guardians

Thank you to Mr. Sanders for keeping an eye on our plants at Drew-Freeman and Windsor Crossing over the summer holiday! Looking forward to seeing the tomatoes flourish. And the peppers and squash and peanuts and lettuce and spinach and... wow, that's a lot of plants. Good thing he has lots of garden experience! Our little seedlings are in friendly, capable hands.

And if he needs a little backup, we've got the boyscouts (who helped us to build and then install irrigation in our hoop house):

They were definitely concerned about area hoodlums "messing with our plants after all of that hard work!" They may be kind and helpful, but you don't want to mess with the boyscouts....

Garlic harvest!

A group of recently graduated 8th graders helped out with today's garlic harvest at Drew Freeman. We pulled garlic, snipped any remaining garlic scapes, and tied them up to cure for a few weeks in the covered walkway alongside the courtyard garden. Oh boy are we going to have lots of delicious garlic to work with when the school year starts up again....

As a token of thanks to these helpers, I'd brought along a batch of my now-famous chocolate beet brownies. (The Eco-Friendly Group LOVED them when we made a batch together earlier this spring.) I hope to make them when the monthly community cooking classes start up next fall. So many folks who tried them today asked me for the recipe, so, for you aspiring bakers out there who thought you didn't like beets, click here for the recipe.