Basil bonanza

Hey, students and teachers and parents! Stop by the Windsor Crossing hoophouse sometime to check out the beautiful food growing there, including this basil, tended by Farmer Rachel:

Then stop by the Suitland Farmers' Market on Tuesday afternoons (3-7pm) to buy some fresh fruits and veggies:

Like the kind you'll need to make some of the delicious salads we've made together.... Remember that kale salad that you love? Or chocolate beet brownies? It's right in your neighborhood!

I have no idea what  the Eco-friendaly group been up to but   I will be back

Let's get these pots started!

Check out Tiana and Justin planting spinach and chives in the hanging pots. Oooh, can't wait for all of these seeds to germinate and grow into delicious leaves for us to harvest in a couple of months....

Moving things around

Yep, today was a hauling stuff around day. Ms. Jessica brought over a whole load of burlap sacks for students at Drew-Freeman to use for mulch around the garlic and beet beds out in the garden. Luckily, Ms. Pierre and her son were there to help us move many, many piles of these donated sacks that formerly held coffee beans. (Hooray for reusing and recycling!)

Oh, yes, we also moved a lot of hanging pots that students had planted at Drew, pots with little bitty lettuce and spinach seeds and a few other things I discerned on the blue labels. Good thing we had help loading these into the truck for transport to Windsor Crossing.

Mr. Sanders was excited to have some more plants to nurture in the Windsor Crossing hoop house. Me, I was glad for the lift home afterwards: that was a TIRING but rewarding afternoon!

Starting the new year with seeds

At first, it might look like not much is going on in the winter, in terms of growing food, but just wait a few weeks....

While waiting for the hanging pots seeded with spinach and lettuce to make their way back from Drew-Freeman, Mr. Sanders and I decided to get some seeds into the first in-ground bed in the Windsor Crossing hoop house last Friday afternoon.

It was chilly and rainy outside, but that didn't stop us from getting our seeds planted. Check back in a few weeks and see the progress of our beets, radishes, and (Mr. Sanders' favorite) kale.

Oh boy, I hope it comes out as beautiful and delicious as the Swiss chard that I harvested, still going from last season!