Planting Seeds Indoors

Today we started some seeds indoors. Right now we're planting jalapenos, lettuce, red and white onions, sweet peppers, and broccoli. We have to start these seeds inside because it's still too cold outside to plant.

Heather and Christy starting broccoli seeds

Sabiha and Karina planting peppers.  

Yesterday we were able to go to a seed swap for the 20th anniversary of the Growing Center. We swapped for some radish and pumpkin seeds. Next week is going to be awesome!

The whole crew at the seed swap!

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