Rainy Day Warmy Soil

A rainy day but a lot of photos and some warm soil temperatures. We are just around 49-50 deg farenheit for soil temperatures.

Starter Tutorial Day two

Beans Beans good for your heart the more you eat the more you....get smart :)

more pepper starts

sunflower starts, we plan on having an army of sunflowers

the whole start table wow!

Starter Clinic and Self Choice Jobs

Mr. I teaching about how to make and water the starters 

Kondalia and Sierra transplanting kale

Cameron "dealing" with the weeds

Kyle and James getting wood chips for the garden beds

Hunter watering the beds

Soil Temperature down to 41 Degrees Farenheit.

our SAMI Intern Ms. Alana getting rid of weeds

a nice work day

Tagro came today :)

Ciera with her pepper starters

Teanna and Angela"s (meeh) eggplant starters

Sierra and Olivia working hard

Flour Power!!!!!!!!

Today we watched 7th grade science's demonstration of how flour is flammable when you put it in the air. We talked about how much energy plants have and how animals break them down.

we also made thank you cards for Tagro (who is coming no monday to deliver), Ms. Diamond, Ms. Richardson, and Ms. Dilworth. for donating seeds to us this week.

We also rented out 3 beds to a church 2 blocks away for their preschool program.

Becoming the Master of the Seeds

Mr. Iverson told us that he can't be the only one who knows how to plant all the different seeds we just got donated to us. So today we researched all the seeds people donated to us! Now we have a whole class of people that are experts in different types of plants. We also put them on the whiteboard planting schedule.

Tram-Anh Researching spinach and sunflower particulars

Zuriel Wildflowers and squash seeds.

McKayla researching cauliflower

Sophon becoming the master of the tomato seed.

Everybody working hard in the sun!

Today we started planting! we put peas, carrots and beets in. We are going to put plants in in stages to make sure they harvest over a longer period and have more chances for success.

We also got the hose out and working. We are filling up pots for starts including sunflowers and soon other things. Today the soil temperature was 45 degrees Fahrenheit.

Zuriel, and Alex working hard!

Sophon moving dirt

Kondalia, Teanna, Sierra preparing the beds for peas

Zach working hard in the garden

Organizing Our Beds And Getting Ready For Transplanting!

Tram-Anh transplanting Kale

Kyle filling starter pots

Jeffery Transplanting Onions

Everyone Working hard!!

Everyone did an amazing job today. A lot of hard work was put into the jobs!!

Strawberry Transplanting Clinic

Today we went out and transplanted strawberries from beds that were getting over grown. 

Tram-Anh and Mauricio working on mr. i's plot that is totally overgrown!

Mr. Iverson showed us how to do it correctly and we practiced the whole period.

cierra and hunter working together to put more than one start for each pot.

work work and work some more semester 2 first day of work success

work work work and work some more
they  are preping the beds for plating 

tomatillo husk with a fruit in the middle a natural forming jingle bell

lettuce

wheelbarrowing

more bed prep

chips to rid the mud of the garden

even more bed prep

straw berry transplant actually the straw berry isnt a berry it is actually the swollen middle of the flower

radish pickers

a super nice day to get a lot of work done here is jeffrey saying see ya later

The Death of "Nancy" the Female Mallard

• Nancy the Mallard Duck died at the approximate age of 3-4 years old on Monday, February 4 as the result of injuries sustained from rocks being thrown at her head repeatedly by male members of our school after the school day was over. Nancy has stopped by our raingarden pond for 3 years on her migration pattern north and south each year. She died in this pond on Monday.

•  Nancy was born somewhere in the Northern Hemisphere a few springs ago. She was part of a clutch of brothers and sisters. She married Jimmy her mate a few years ago and has been travelling north and south ever since. She loved to sift water for algae, plant material and aquatic life as a food source and source of enjoyment. Nancy and her mate Jimmy were the only residence of the Stewart Middle School pond from the Mallard Duck species.

•  Nancy is survived by her mate Jimmy and 600 plus children and 40 plus adults that watched over her and her habitat in the community garden pond area on the hill behind school. She also lost the chance to give birth to her own clutch this year. Jimmy has since left the pond in search of another mate who has lost her male counterpart. The students of Stewart will miss seeing her play in the water and feed with her mate.

• If you would like to pay your respects to Nancy please do so by reminding others about the importance of not disturbing her home and habitat that she leaves behind. Littering, disturbing, and violence were Nancy's frustrations. She hoped that a clean pond will attract other ducks in the future.

• If you would like to help the Stewart Middle School community garden you can make posters reminding people to respect the habitat and post them around school.

cheyenne and sierra picking up garbage around the pond.

Kondalia and Tram-Anh placing paper garbage in the worm bins

Mr. Iverson removing garbage, litter and decorative rocks that have been thrown in the pond.