Our new garden educator, Colin, has been revitalizing our program. starting Fall 2010, the students have been learning a lot especially about composting and worms, He has done an incredible job behind the scenes organizing the tool shed.
Third grade students primarily work in the garden. The after school program last semester offered a more intensive organic gardening experience for the elementary students.
Here's some recent pictures of the herb garden and edible garden.
Here are some pictures our our kinder area thanks to Mary Shannon, art teacher, and Willow, parent. New concrete work, painted tables couldn't have happened without Willow's help. The beautiful mural, succulents, and the new beautiful flowers from recycled container lids which are throughout campus is the art teacher's Mrs. Heinzelman creations. Our new seeds packed and hand drawn by the 3rd graders and selling well. Our cooking class at Alchemy also received a lot of recognition for The great Chef Ricardo and our school.
In October we started building a compost and a worm bin to contribute nutrients to the soil. After hearing the story of the Sacred Lotus Seed we also learned about seeds and planted some carrots, garlic and fava beans. These are all nutrient builds and yummy to eat too.
In September we have been exploring how plants grow, what makes healthy soil and different types of seeds. Our first project was the edible garden with creative puppet shows and our shovels we prepared the soil and planted kale, swiss chard, lettuce, beets, onions, leeks, and peas.
The 3rd grade classes have been hard at work in the many different gardens at Albert Einstein Academy. The school campus gardens are all filled with wonderful fruits and vegetables. If you get a chance to walk around notice the new fence that is still being built with bamboo in the African Medicinal Garden and the new banana trees that were transplanted by the 3rd grade classes in Fruit Tree Lane by the obstacle course.
