Installing the netting row cover
How many people does it take to install the garden netting …… a village.
See how beautifully they work together to get the job done.
At St Mary’s High School in Pickering today.
Working with 30 students from the Outdoor Ed. Program has been a joy.
These students participate in this leadership program of which We Grow Food’s Edible Garden gets to be a part of.
Check out their incredible artwork that will be installed in the new garden beds
Self watering Planters or Wicking Pots are teaching the students about: absorption, capillary action, saturation point, evaporation, condensation, and germination.
Using experiments and games their understanding deepens. They are excited to share answers, observations, and questions. Curiously is what is so beautiful to watch with all ages.
We discussed all of the ways they would eat their sprouts: avocado toast and sprouts, in a salad, tossed in pasta, on their burger, or in a smoothie….. young people eat more greens when they learn to grow them themselves.
We Grow Food We Grow Food is back at Durham District School Board DaVinci’s Public School for the second year after having the Edible Gardens built
75 Students participated as we spent a half a day learning how to make self watering wicking pots, and learning about absorption and capillary action. Students planted their beans and took them home to watch them grow.
Garden beds were planted. We discuss the importance creating a “garden map” and companion planting for best growth production for all the plants. We look at spacing of plants by understanding how wide and how tall each of them will get.
As always, signage is important. Each crop has a description, how to grow and how to harvest. This is helpful information for anyone visiting the Garden.
We Grow Food is back at Durham District School Board @DaVinci’s Public School for the second year after having the Edible Gardens built
75 Students participated as we spent a half a day learning how to make self watering wicking pots, and learning about absorption and capillary action. Students planted their beans and took them home to watch them grow.
Garden beds were
planted. We discuss the importance creating a “garden map” and companion planting for best growth production for all the plants. We look at spacing of plants by understanding how wide and how tall each of them will get.
As always, signage is important. Each crop has a description, how to grow and how to harvest. This is helpful information for anyone visiting the Garden.
We spent a couple of days at Coronation PS. The first for their Wellness Event….. an open house for the whole school and their families. Stations were set up around the school…. from the outdoor garden discussion with We Grow Food’s Michelle Perry, on local sustainable eating… to book fair, yoga and of course We Grow Food’s Salsa Making with ingredients you can grow in the garden.
The second day is expanding the Edible garden by adding a new bed. This means THREE beds to grow food in!!!! We Planted and did seed saving with over 150 students!!!!!!
Enthusiastic young people inspired to take not only back to the class but back to their homes what they have learned. Each student took away a Seed Potato to grow and the seeds for the new start of a seed library
For the summer We Grow Food’s mentor Debbie Waker will assist families participating in caring for the gardens.
A little story about We Grow Food :)
Well look at this beautiful piece of work😍.
Thank you Beans (Carol’s Brother)from B&C Construction for making this amazing outdoor kitchen for Heartbeat Homestead.
Another incredible day with coronation public school in Oshawa. Thank you @ftndurham for making it possible for this to happen.. Thank you @Kamstra Amazing soil. Thank you Mary from @thelivingroomartstudio For coming out and helping us paint these incredible Word murals #DDSB #sustainability #urbanfarming #school builds #Education #WeGrowFood #Volunteering #FeedingTheCommunity
#Wonderfulstudents
Even on a rainy day without hesitation all of the staff are there to help support with making it possible and easy for us at #WeGrowFood with all of our supply needs.THANK YOU PEACOCK LUMBER IN OSHAWA❤️
Thank you Kingsway Greenhouse And College Park Flowers for everything you do to help us at the nonprofit community organization We Grow Food. Your support has always helped us do the amazing work that we do in the community. We are excited for the 2022 season and all the builds we are doing with the Durham district board school board schools, nonprofit housing corporation, Catholic district school board builds and with Feed The Need Durham this year
it has been a busy day!!!! michelle has 2/3 of all the plants picked up. They will divided up to ten gardens that We Grow Food will be planting in the next two weeks. Thank you to #feedtheneedindurham for partnering with us again this year.
I put together this weeks school kits. All the supplies for teaching seed saving to six classes, almost 150 students, is ready.
The white wood boards will become work murals with the theme of “community” and “ sustainable eating practices.
thank you to #thelivingroomcommunityartstudiofor joining us in creating this amazing art.
This week we are at Coronation PS and Waverly PS.
