Managing the greenhouse beds:

Oct 12th: First Greenhouse Harvest

Students harvested 3.5 lbs of spinach and 3.5 pounds of lettuce. The greens were used in the school cafeteria.

Sept. 24: Working in the greenhouse

Proud U-32 student gardeners taking care of their plants.

Mushroom Lecture:

Fletcher Dean talks to students about mushroom foraging and growing edible mushrooms on logs. The next day we went out to forage for mushrooms in the U-32 forest.

Video of our students seeding the greenhouse

Fall 2009 is the first season we will be using our new greenhouse. Each student has their own 3.5 foot by 12 foot raised bed. We are seeding three varieties of winter hardy spinach and four varieties of winter hardy lettuce. The goal is to grow and harvest greens into the winter without using any heat.

Harvesting Potatoes, garlic, onions, and swiss chard: Fall 2009

Students dug potatoes, as well as harvested onions, garlic, and swiss chard from the U-32 garden. All the food harvested is being used in the school cafeteria. Students not only harvest the crops but also weighed them so we can track total yield for each season.

2009: Greenhouse complete and berries ready to pick.

May 13th

Students did a great job today working on the greenhouse beds, preparing the garden, and cleaning up and mulching the herb and butterfly gardens.

Notice On Timestamps

Since technology hates our photographer Martin, the timestamps on all of our photos are completely off and should be ignored! Thank you in advance.

Preparing the Greenhouse

In another step to prepare the greenhouse, students learned how to roll up the sod of the greenhouse, and move it outside. Although hard and dirty work, students enjoyed the hands-on work, and everyone seemed to have a good time!

Working On the Gardens

Along with our greenhouse, we also have a set of gardens we are using to grow in. Students spent time turning soil so they could plant vegetables in it.

Mushroom Project

Student Ari Erlbaum decided to learn how to grow and maintain edible mushrooms for his project. The first part of his project was to cut down logs for him to grow the mushrooms on. With the help of classroom helper Fletcher Dean, they gathered a few from the woods behind U-32.

First Day in the Greenhouse-Collecting Soil Samples

During our first workday in the greenhouse, we went in to collect soil samples to test the pH and several other factors of our soil. We needed this information to know if we needed to change any factors to be ideal for growing, and to also know what we could plant, and where to plant it.

Continued

More pictures from our extra credit trip.