Goodbye First Semester

Well it has been a great semester. Today is the last day.  We have been a very good class.
This class has been amazing because of us.
We had some great times and some bad times.
One time we even made Mr. I cry (tears of joy)
We harvested a lot of food and got the garden ready for the next year.

Drafting our first set of Community Garden Rules

Today in class we broke up into 4 different groups of four and brainstormed important rules for students, visitors and gardeners to follow when they enter and interact with the garden.

We then shared out our ideas and agreed on similarities. This rules below are what we came up with:

1.) Please walk appropriately on designated pathways only
2.) Please do not remove or disturb plants in beds or along pathways especially if they are not yours.
3.) Please do not enter or throw anything in the pond ever.
4.) If you own a bed please keep it maintained regularly and visit weekly
5.) Please Put your trash in the garbage correctly
6.) Please Do not vandalize our garden.
7.) Please return any borrowed materials to the shed and lock it.
8.) Please roll up the hose and turn of the water after use
9.) Please do not STEAL anything from the garden!
10.) Please put plant waste in compost bin
11.) Please do not use chemical pesticides or fertilizers (organic only)
12.) Please check in with the main office before 2:45 during school days to use
13.) Please supervise and pick up after your pets!

or in kids friendly sign

1.) Stay on the pathways and out of beds!
2.) Don't mess with people's beds!
3.) Don't throw stuff in the pond!
4.) No littering
5.) No vandalism
6.) No stealing plants or signs

We will run this by second semester class and make a final list before we start our signs!

day of clean

couple of  guys shoveling up sand  for path way 

hunter and  david picking up grass and moving it to the hill

resharn putting dirt into the beds

kondalia putting dirt into the bucket

francisco shoveling the woodchips

azaziah patting the dirt down

the girls weeding the beds

kona smoothing out the sand for path

rien walking up the path way 

Hunter shoveling up grass

mushrooms

             a bunch of kale

  

MR Iverson spelling Stewart 

shadows of the gardeners

Split Inside/Outside Work Day

david  is picking up litter 

zuriel and mauricio working in the warm garden adding newspaper shreds and old apples

Hunter pulling weeds from the pathways and using them to rebuild a hill that was destroyed by grounds and maintenance 

                                                                       

Mr. Iverson spreading woodchips 

Zach pulling garbage out of the rain garden pond. grrrr.

winter clean up day

 Seth cleaning the fish tank filter

 Zuriel cleaning the shed

 Jeremy and Mauricio picking up liter

 Sophan fixing up the trails

 a group of kids picking up wood chips 

 Mr. I marking the pathways that need new woodchips

 Hunter picking weeds

 David drilling holes on the worm bed to drain water better

Resharn cleaning the fish tank (eww)