from the garden

Archive for February, 2010

Keeping resources in the garden with worm compost.

WATCH THIS VIDEO: A student videographer checks out one of our worm bins. We regularly harvest worm castings from these bins to enrich the soil, especially in raised beds.

February 26, 2010  Tags: , ,   Posted in: compost, school garden, urban garden, video, worm compost, youth involvement  One Comment

View our Model & Results

I recently gave an overview presentation of our work, and here it is for your viewing. US Presentation, CAFB Feb-10 View more presentations from Abby Jaramillo. This presentation was originally prepared by Lisa, Adriani and I for the Network for a Healthy California. I added a bit to this version, given at a meeting hosted [...]

February 23, 2010   Posted in: curriculum, evaluation, gbemodel, nutrition  Comments Closed

Pollination 101

Middle school students are learning about plant reproduction in the garden at San Francisco Community.  Flowers are blooming and our lettuces and arugulas are ready to create and scatter their seeds.  Students are discovering how these changes in nature -  observable in the city and not just in cultivated gardens -  are part of the [...]

February 9, 2010   Posted in: curriculum, flower, pollinators, school garden  Comments Closed

Cracked up!

Spring semester is in swing at June Jordan School for Equity. The favas and mustard planted last year are looking great and we are prepping the beds with compost for our spring plantings. The chickens are thriving in their new coop, and they’ve started laying again! But it’s not all what it’s cracked up to [...]

February 3, 2010   Posted in: chickens, video  One Comment

Garden Work Days

We hosted a fabulous group of volunteers yesterday from the Presidio Graduate School up at the June Jordan garden.  Their students built a new worm box, cleaned the chicken coop, readied the family garden for planting, and weeded the student garden.  They even . . .

February 1, 2010   Posted in: event, school garden, volunteer  Comments Closed