new year post

We're at it Again!

This year we have some new people helping us out at Rainbow Growers. For our first meeting we had Makaylah, AJ, Darien, Kaylie, Sabiha, Kailaa, Jacob, David, Gricelda, Kathleen, Bryan, Kevin. We also had Susan and Jose from Eagle Eye Institute, Betsy from Real Kids Real Food, Lisa from the Growing Center, and Heather and Jim from the Mystic Learning Center. We were able to tour the gardens for our second meeting and talk about all the plants that were there last season. There was a lot of trash around the garden areas so we took turns cleaning it up. For the next couple of weeks we will be cleaning out the garden, and take an inventory to determine what seeds we are going to plant. It is important to take inventory because it shows us what we have and what we need to buy. We will also be starting seeds in cups by next week. We are excited for this new year!

Our first meeting. 03/07/14

This is what one of our gardens looks like now. Soon it will be cleared out and ready for planting. 03/14/14

Here are Kaylie, Jacob and Christie cleaning up litter around the gardens. 03/14/14

We were able to pick up an entire bag of litter! 03/14/14

We are making more lavender by taking lavender cuttings and  putting the ends in water, and then root growing hormone, then putting them in a mixture of soil and perlite, promoting root growth.

 

We are interviewing a member of the Garden Club and she is 10 years old. She is going to tell us what she likes about gardening.

"I like helping with the garden and planting. I really enjoy gardening. What I like most is I get to do some things on my own. Today I had fun making my own little green house with a sprig of lavender in it."
                                              

So far this SUMMER.......

So far this summer we have given out vegetables to 48 families, 153 people total. We have given out collard greens, green kale, dinosaur kale, eggplant, jalapeno, lettuce, tomatoes, basil, purple basil, thai basil, greek basil, sage, beans, peas, zucchini and Mexican tarragon

Today:

Our second garden  plot is looking green!

We grew a giant zucchini!