14 pounds of green beans, squash, onions, and passion fruit were donated today!

That's 119 pounds of organic produce donated this summer to our local food pantry from our elementary school beds!

How amazing is that? Way to grow Lil'Vikes!

#school #SchoolGardens #gardening #food #FoodSecurity #organic #farming #teacher #volunteer #education

Good morning!

What a great day to update our #school totals of donated #food from our gardens!

SOUL Food Pantry received another 17lbs of food today from our gardens, bringing the summer tally to 60.5lbs!

Do you think will make 100 before the season is out?

#SchoolGardens #FoodSecurity #gardening #volunteer #teacher #gardener #harvest #VikingDiff #PCSD

Congratulations Kaitlyn on your next step to achieving Eagle Scout! Your amazing beds are producing so much food for our community! Thank you for choosing our school program for your build project! It's been amazing working with you throughout the process! Thank you!
#VikingDiff #SchoolGardens #community #volunteer #FoodSecurity

🎉 #Introduction 🎉

B’s Junior Gardeners is an Ohio Association of Garden Clubs registered Junior Garden Club, serving students at
two schools in the Princeton City School District. While enriching students’ science education in a garden
classroom, they are provided Ohio Department of Education aligned curriculum, introduced to nature in a safe
environment, and encouraged to steward the natural world around them.

#SchoolGardens #STEAM #Volunteer #SciComm #teacher #schools

#SchoolGardens workshop. Making marigold corn tortillas at Davis Bilingual #Elementary

Friends, a #schoolgardens workshop is the most earnest, entertaining, educational training in the world. Teacher/gardeners are all kind, smart go-getters with energy to burn 💚 All they want to do is encourage a sense of wonder and save the world. I have found my people 🌺🌱🌻

Going to a three-day #SchoolGardens workshop #today. Haven’t been this thrilled to take a class since Children’s Lit with Patricia Maclachlan back in college !!! PS - Anyone know what this flower is?

Friend just forwarded me this — brilliant concept for bringing chickens to school for the day #teaching #schoolgardens #gardening

Daily garden bounty #SchoolGardens #gardening #today

Got caught in the rain, covered in mud, no new beds, but am still mostly ready for an alternate planting adventure this week. Hoping these beds will magically be in place in time. 😂
Now it's time to prep the #seed #potatoes and gather the student's tools, gloves, seeds, and water buckets, then finish the lesson prep. 🍃 :akko_tired2:

#gardening #Gardener #food #SchoolGardens #school #volunteer #teacher

Edited for flow 😉

The riches of long friendship — thank you Carolyn Nuttall
My world is diminished without this friend — the heavens are darker without Carolyn’s light and I will miss all we shared. …Rosemary Morrow, 9 April 2023
https://www.permacultureday.org/2023/04/16/the-riches-of-long-friendship-thank-you-carolyn-nuttall/
#InMemoryofCarolynNuttall #CarolynNuttall #permacultureschoolgardens #schoolgardens

Farewell Carolyn… and thanks…
Carolyn was a regular keynote speaker on school gardens at the early annual Community and School Garden gatherings.
https://communitygarden.org.au/2023/04/farewell-carolyn-nuttall/
#Schoolgardens #Carolynnuttall #learnscaper #schoolgardens

#today Getting ready
#schoolgardens #GardeningWithKids

Last cold frame class! Now it's time to see how well their seeds sprout!

Next up are pit traps and soil explorations!!!

#teacher #naturalist #gardener #gardening #STEM #volunteer #SchoolGardens

Super creative, stem-tastic, awesomeness is happening in our local #Schools!

Our baby lettuces and carrots will be tested out in the newly insulated cold frames designed by my first graders!

Can't wait to see how well they grow!

#SchoolGardens #Gardening #teaching #volunteer

I love my first grade gardeners!!! They saved recyclables then built the panels for their cold frames today. Seeds are set with an outside pot planted for comparison. 3 more sessions to go!

#SchoolGardens #Volunteer #teacher #gardener

Started rehabbing the older amaryllis #bulbs for my #school #garden project this year, because half didn't bloom last season, and of course they're all going to bloom this year. Even the ones in the blender pitcher!
#SchoolGardens #gardening

Seeds and bulbs, seeds and bulbs, what fun there is in seeds and bulbs!

Students learned how seeds travel, found the baby plant inside a seed, and planted bulbs!

#SchoolGardens #VIKINGDIFF #volunteers #OutdoorClassrooms
#Teacher #GardenScience

As it's #GivingTuesday I'd like to post my links.

My #JrGardeners #school program has very few pulling the weight of many. Please consider donating to help keep us going!

Would you like to help?

Venmo to cover supply costs: https://venmo.com/u/BsJrGardeners

Amazon wishlist of supplies: https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/ls/2Y6VLVC093VIG?ref_=wl_share

Email to volunteer: bsjrgs at gmail dot com

#volunteers #SchoolGardens #JuniorGardeners
#Teacher #ClearTheList #STEM

#Students have finished #harvesting their veggie #gardens and ate salads while taste testing #herbs from their gardens too! Mint tea, fennel seeds, oregano, they tried them all!

Looking forward to #teaching the bulb lesson and then some seasonal rest.

Oh, who am I kidding? Next up is #seedling starting for the #spring #plant sale! Basement plant cave is about to get even fuller!

#Volunteer #SchoolGardens #GardenClassrooms #Teacher