From the New York Times, The 11 Best Foods You Aren’t Eating We got 3 of these growing in our school gardens (4 if we knew how to dry plums.)
Curtis Jones is President of BotanicalInterests.com, a family owned seed company based in Colorado. Botanical Interests offers a very unique seed selling fundraising program that works particularly well for schools and especially schools with gardens. School Garden Weekly (SGW): Curtis, what inspired you to start this unique fundraising idea for schools? Curtis Jones (CJ): The […]
See this previous post for more about thinning.
Thank you to Michael Levenston at CityFarmer.info for uncovering this gem, a digitized school book from School Garden Series, published in 1918. The uniforms may have changed, but much of the instruction is still valid. The Child’s Food Garden, With a Few Suggestions for Flower Culture by Van Evrie Kilpatrick, 1918, Principal of the Carlisle […]
We’re eight weeks into the school year and we’ve been harvesting since week one. Only a year round school garden can make such a boast, true, but the real secret is our perennial herb bed. Whenever we’re in between seasons or waiting for something to mature there is always the herb bed. Since day 1, […]
Seeds come in many shapes and sizes. They can be as big as coconuts or as small as orchid seeds that are carried by the wind. Size usually depends on how the seed is dispersed. Big or small they all have three things in common related to their structure: 1) Hard protective shell outside called […]
Hope to see you all there! The Los Angeles Unified School District’s CALIFORNIA INTSTRUCTIONAL SCHOOL GARDEN PROGRAM ANNUAL RESOURCE FAIR SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 27, 2008 10:00am-2:00pm AT THE “HIDDEN GARDEN” IN NORTH WEDDINGTON PARK ADJACENT TO Rio Vista Elementary School 4243 Satsuma Ave North Hollywood, CA 91602 OVER 50 RESOURCE TABLES! OVER 50,000 FREE VEGETABLE SEEDLINGS! […]