Farmer's Market

We grew a lot of vegetables and we are giving out limited amount of free vegetables at the Mystic Mobile Farmer's Market, every Saturday this summer! This summer, we have given out collard greens, green kale, and dinosaur kale. We have also given out basil, eggplant, peas, and beans. We are doing this because as part of our grant, we agreed to grow healthy foods, like vegetables, to give out in the community. Every time we give away food, it makes us feel good because we are giving out food to people that need it. Come check us out at the Mystic Mobile Farmer's Market!

Garden Club

Every Monday, we have Garden Club, led by Jim and the Eagle Eye team. Today, we worked hard in the garden doing watering and weeding. Then we picked some Lemon Balm in order to make Lemon Balm Sun Tea. We had to pick all of the leaves off of the stems and wash them to start brewing the tea.

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Summer Work

We have been working very hard on the garden over the summer. Every Monday workers from the Eagle Eye come and help us during Garden Club. During Garden Club, we have to help the younger kids to understand what we are doing.

We teach them how to garden and how to tell what are weeds and what are our plants. 

We had the younger workers help make labels for our garden!

We also teach them where to water the plants and how much water the plants need. 

 

We love the garden and we are an awesome team! 

The New Plot for Gardening

Our community garden has been around for 23 years. We got a new plot given to us because we told the Housing Authority that we would clean it and make it better. They told us that since we cleaned it, we could start using it this summer. Some workers from Eagle Eye Institute helped us clean out the plot and build the raised beds.

BEFORE: That thing was trashed!

DURING: Adults helped to clear the plot because there were a lot of rusty nails.  We couldn't help because we were in school and it was dangerous because we didn't really know what was in there.

AFTER: Go adults! Working hard. 

We (Darien and Sabiha) got to use power tools, and it was Sabiha's first time! Darien got to use a sledge hammer to place the stakes in, and Sabiha got to drill the wooden planks.  We also got to use a saw for this first time.

With the help of Eagle Eye, we got a donation from Home Depot of starter plants to begin the plants. In our new plot, we got kale, peppers, tomatoes, and cucumbers. All of the flowering plants are in the first bed, and all of the leafy plants are in the second bed.