School Gardens

Here are some photos from our school garden creations. We have so many photos, and so little time to upload them, so please bare with us as this is a work in progress.

Check out Monroe Elementary school’s garden:

Monroe Bed 1 Salad Bar 1

(L) Bok Choy and Brassica’s with a Red Zinnia. (R) Three varieties of lettuce with some beets sprouting up.

Monroe Mustard 1.2.08 Monroe Chard 1.2.08

(L) Sam checking on some beautiful Mustard Greens growing in the fall/winter beds. (R) Swiss Chard loving the southern sun exposure.

Monroe Romanesco 1.2.08 Monroe Dino Kale 1.2.08

(L) Romanesco ready to eat (R) Dinosaur Kale with nice full, long leaves.

Check out the planter boxes built and growing at Francis Scott Key Elementary School in the Sunset:

FSK Building Box 1 FSK Filling the Boxes


(L) Jerome Mace was our on site builder and construction coordinator. He was helped by several parents of FSK students. (R) Here we’re all getting into the spirit of working together hauling the mixture of top soil and compost bucket by bucket to fill the boxes.

FSK Planter Box 1

After everything was done, we planted edible Pansies, Ornamental (and edible) Kale, as well as salad greens and some veggies.

Below are some photos of Jefferson Elementary Schools Garden, 6 months after initial planting.

JESG 6 months later 1 JESG 6 months later 2

(L) You can see chard, and artichokes, and nasturtiums, and snap dragons, and radishes (flowering out of control), and mustard greens, and cilantro, and the herb spiral’s Feverfew flowering immensely as well. (R) Here you can see icelandic poppies, brussel sprouts ready to blossom, nasturtiums, celery, dino kale, and some of a cover crop we planted a few months ago, including fava beans, vetch, and oats.

JESG 6 mo later 3 JESG 6 mo later 3

(L) Here is the woven willow fence we made on our second Garden Party visit to Jefferson Elementary School. (R) Check out the growth on those Brussel sprouts. The lovely signs you see were hand painted by our intern, Fiamma, and the wood came from an old wine barrel.

JESG 6 mo later 4 JESG 6 months later 3

(L) Red drumhead cabbage, nasturtiums, peonies, and more. (R) The beautiful herb spiral in all its glory. Here you can see Feverfew and German Chamomile flowering, spearmint, lamb’s ear, different varieties of thyme, native strawberries, oregano, sage, and rosemary.

Cob Fish at Jefferson elementary school

A cob bench at Jefferson Elementary School. Cob, a natural building material is typically made from mixing clay, sand, and straw into a sticky, moldable material that hardens when dry. For more information and photos about cob, check out our natural building workshops page.

More to come, check back later!

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