Feb 11
Feb 11
Red Herrings Are Not Dinner Food
http://oaklandlocal.com/article/red-herrings-are-not-dinner-food-or-why-caitlin-flanagan-wrong-about-school-gardens
Feb 11
Weep or Reap? School Gardens and Learning.
This is a rebuttal to the article in Atlantic magazine.
http://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/school-garden-debate-weep-or-reaphttp://www.ecoliteracy.org/essays/school-garden-debate-weep-or-reap
Nov 17
Mayor’s Landscape Second Place Award & Community Gardener Potluck
Here are the gardeners with the Mayors Landscape Award: 2nd Place for School Gardens in our Region and the very FIRST Youth Community Greener of the Year
Enjoying the Fern Room at Garfield Park Conservatory
The future of our Gardens!
Without volunteers we wouldn't be here!
Youth Greener of the Year
Saturday, November 14th marked another wonderful garden potluck at Garfield Park. Our gardens were also honored as 2nd Place Winner of the Mayor’s Community Garden Landscape Award for School Gardens in our Region and by Andres Villanueva: winner of the FIRST Youth Greener of the Year!
Nov 03
Chicago’s Community Gardens and Openspaces
Click on link to see us on the map for Chicago’s Community Gardens and Openspace!
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Nov 03
October Workdays
We worked through lovely Indian Summer and cold, cloudy days.
Here's the photographer
Harvesting lemon balm (Melissa officinales). We make a tea to calm ourselves.
A former student returns to help out
Diane didn't make it,but that didn't stop this artist from creating a lovely piece
Taking a break
Love that peanut butter and jelly!
Irene demonstrates how we prepare the tools for winter storage by cleaning and oiling them
We use the chipper to break down plants, so they will decompose into compost more easily.
A close-up of the chipper
On the last workday of 2009, we painted a friendly monster to protect the garden during the winter
This second grader demonstrates proper tool care
Daughter draws while mother harvests oregano for pozole
Cutting flowers for Mom
Nov 03
Harvestfest 2009
The weather was cold, wet and blustery, but that didn’t stop us from celebrating Harvestfest. We had tostadas, pizza and cha cha, played 7 Up and generally had a great time!
Gabriela and Bart
The Perez Family
Scott, Irene and a friend
We raffled fabulous prizes!
Jamiah finally arrived around 5PM
Nelson and Ms. Nora
We gathered on Irene's new ginkgo bench
Nov 03
September 29, 2009 Workday
Miguel checks our rainbarrel to see why water isn't getting through
Student artwork
More student artwork
Irene oversees the work
The beans were growing wild!
Our artist Diane
Angelica, the proud planter of papalo
The work on the toe stubbers continued
George and Scott took home collard greens--yummy!
Sep 24
Autumnal Equinox Workday 9-22-09
We started our day with Ms. Laura Caravello’s class planting irises on the parkway. The students utilized simple machines, testing to see which would need less force a hand trowel or a shovel.
Here is the work crew.
Using hand trowels
Using shovels
Planting the bulbs
Afterschool, Natalia, Angel, Jorge and Valentin came by to help.
The boys discovered a hornbeam caterpillar
We found a slug
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Miguel and Octavio and another friend came to work on the toe stubbers
They first took out the old, sawed new wood and replaced
The HR men worked into the dusk on the parkway wall
Scott is trained stone mason. Irene and he checked the work.
Sep 17
Workday with the Artists
Posing with some garden art
Today was another beautiful September Day. Room 201 got out into the gardens during school. Ms. Laura observed Chief Seattle Garden with the 5th graders as Ms. Claudia worked with the 4th graders, three moms, Ms. Ruthie, and two 5th grade helpers (Sofia and Jorge) to weed the parkway.
Afterschool, Valentin and Natalia worked with Diane Green, an artist who has a non-profit organization called MUSE. Her website is at http://www.callmecrazy.org. Her projects include a heritage quilt project and working with survivors of traumatic experiences.
Showing Diane plants we can eat in the garden.
Here Diane clowns with Valentin. Showing off one of our yellow tomatoes.
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