from the garden

Archive for December, 2007

Garden Greetings from Japan

Urban Sprouts volunteer Zia Hrdy recently sent me this update on her adventures in Japan, where she lives and teaches. School gardens come naturally there! We miss Zia and look forward to her homecoming! She was an extremely dedicated garden volunteer at Ida B. Wells High School during 2005-06. Top photo is Zia with her [...]

December 28, 2007   Posted in: school garden  2 Comments

Updates from MLK Middle School!

photos: preparing a “winter fruit-root salad” and a bed of kale and chard! As the days get shorter and cooler, we have been busily tending our winter crops at the MLK Middle School garden. We have kale, chard, bok choi, broccoli, romanesco, fava beans, beets, and carrots growing, which will make for a yummy feast [...]

December 12, 2007   Posted in: school garden, worm compost  2 Comments

Youth Garden Designers!

At the campus shared by Excelsior (middle school) and June Jordan (high school), behind the school garden lies a huge open field area currently used for nothing . . . but we are making plans! This semester the Food class at June Jordan took the first crack at designing the new garden space. Students listed [...]

December 12, 2007   Posted in: design, landscape, school garden  2 Comments

Ida B Wells’ 5-Leaf Stir-Fry

Ida B Wells High school students recently harvested 5 varieties of greens and 4 varieties of lettuce and prepared a meal showcasing the diversity of cool season crops! One student took these beautiful photos of her peers engaged in cooperative work: school gardenharvest

December 11, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment

A Note on Generosity

Heading into the holiday season has me thinking about generosity. The holidays of the winter season invite us to take a moment to be deeply grateful for all the unique and inspiring opportunities, strokes of luck and amazing people we have had the fortune to encounter. Being in the spirit, I would like to take [...]

December 8, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  Comments Closed

Why do we have so much STUFF?

The Story of Stuff:Ever wonder why you get the URGE to SHOP even though you KNOW that wanting more stuff is what makes us trash our environment? Free Range Studios just came out with this great new video that tells the whole story . . . how we use up nature in order to make [...]

December 4, 2007   Posted in: Uncategorized  One Comment