A Garden Party

 We ended our summer with a fabulous feast to celebrate our hard work. Our gardeners incorporated fresh ingredients picked from our garden for each dish! 

Will and Amelia enjoy pasta salad with herbs from the garden, including basil and oregano

Alessandro, Jayden, Xavier, and Conner enjoy Caprese salad with fresh basil

 

We invented a refreshing drink for a hot day: Garden Party Punch! It is one half lemonade, on half Sprite, a lemon and or lime slice, and peppermint or basil leaves to taste. 

This was our favorite thing on the menu! 

Mrs. Kurtz grew corn this summer and Eco Club painted rocks to decorate the garden

After a lot of watering, our ground flower made a brilliant comeback. Thank you so much Orquiola family for donating a Lily of the Valley! We are hoping it settled in nicely and will grow back in the spring. 

Although I didn’t capture it as well as I would have liked to, a monarch butterfly graced us with its presence for our last summer meeting. 

Our gardeners on the last day of summer camp! Thank you for a wonderful summer. 

Sensory Garden

Gardening Club members want our garden to be a lovely, relaxing place for students to visit. Soothing scents and textures now surround our benches made of recycled materials. The calming aroma of lavender, oregano, and rosemary and the soft touch of lamb’s ear plants await. 

Our slightly messy peaceful place 

Mia and Xavier revive our velveteen lamb’s ear plants on a hot day

The crew strikes a pose after a lot of hard work & the storm clouds roll in to give our garden some much needed rain

Mush! Mush! Mushroom Compost

 This summer our gardening crew has been extra busy watering, weeding, and hydrating our soil. After doing a bit of research, Alessandro discovered the function of the hyphae part of mushrooms and gave us the brilliant idea of using mushroom compost to replenish our soil and to help it absorb and retain moisture. 

Alessandro and Mia spread mushroom compost 

Will pulls dandelion weeds while the watering crew coordinates 

Just hanging out by the butterfly bush 

Watering and adding our own compost

Xavier and Connor add fresh soil to our lamb’s ear plants; 

Connor is takes home some fresh peppermint from the garden!

 Everyone took a little something (basil, banana peppers, peppermint, oregano) so that we can experiment with recipes that call for ingredients we are growing. 

Well done, everyone!💪🌱