from the garden

Archive for May, 2008

Visit us in the Garden on June 1!

We at Urban Sprouts are super excited to offer you the chance to get to know us a bit better and experience the school garden this June! Please join Urban Sprouts for our ‘Coffee & Kale’ Garden Brunch! When: Sunday, June 1st, 10:30am to 12 noonWhere: Ida B. Wells High School, 1099 Hayes St. at [...]

May 19, 2008   Posted in: event, fundraising, school garden  Comments Closed

Urban Sprouts is Starting a Chicken Coop!

Urban Sprouts is starting a chicken coop in collaboration with June Jordan Small School for Equity! The coop is a wonderful way to learn about where eggs come from and how they are produced. It is also a wonderful opportunity to explore chicken diversity, biology and to understand how chickens fit into garden and farm [...]

May 6, 2008   Posted in: chickens, farm, local food, urban garden  2 Comments

Worm Bench Inauguration

Several months back, a wonderful crew of volunteers from Skywire helped students at June Jordan to build an amazing worm bin-slash-garden bench (photo below). These worms need a wooden box to protect them from the elements — those plastic bins often aren’t enough in the outdoors. We use red worms, also known as Eisenia foetida [...]

May 1, 2008   Posted in: worm compost, zero waste  2 Comments