Our First Year
The beginning our our garden. We used a tractor to till the hard soil before adding compost.
Our whole school worked together to build paths and garden beds.
It was hard work, good thing we had so many helpful hands!
Finally we got to start planting! These 5th graders planted lemon cucumbers.
If you look closely, you can see plants starting to grow. We used straw to mulch the beds to keep the weeds out.
Add sun and water! Those are some happy plants.
We created lots of habitats for our garden friends, like insects and worms.
We added drip irrigation to water our plants during the dry summer months.
The view from our learning circle
An herb spiral was built, with sage, mint, lemon balm surrounded by a circle of strawberries. Yum!