Tower Garden

This year the 4th graders at Parker Elementary have chosen a Tower Garden as their PBL. Students will plant, maintain, and harvest what they planted from the Tower Garden. Learn more about our project by watching the video below!

May 17th, we took down the Tower Garden (check out those roots!) and replanted our tomatoes, eggplant, cucumbers, cilantro, basil, watermelon, and spinach in the Parker Community Garden. It was a fun day and a wonderful experience. Thanks to Joe for helping us getting everything planted! Such an awesome experience for our students to be producers in a community!

The week of February 19th we cooked our bok choy and tested our hands at making pizzas using the basil from the Tower Garden. The kids had a lot of fun making the pizzas and eating them! The students had to use measurement skills to measure their sauce and cheese. They also learned how to julienne chop their basil. Such a fun experience for all of us!

-Might I add, they were delicious!

February 2, 2018 We harvested a second time. We harvested Kale, Bok Choy, and Rainbow Chard. The students wanted to make smoothies with the kale. So we did! Our first harvest in the middle of January we had Bibb Lettuce, Gourmet Lettuce, Arugula, and Kale.

When we came back from Christmas Break, we had a nice surprise waiting! We planted them right before Thanksgiving Break. So after about 6 weeks this is what we found!

Progress after only being planted and in water for almost 2 weeks!