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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.

Extra Credit Sugaring

In an opportunity for extra credit, students were offered the chance to go to teacher Steve Colangeli's house and work on his sugaring operation. It gave us the chance to see the entire process of harvesting sap and and the process to turn it into maple syrup. Our blog interviewer Martin Nunn-Hudson took this opportunity to visit and see the process, and got some good pictures in the process! He said on the subject, "I had past experience with sugaring, so I knew some of the rocess, but because it has been so long before I had done any sugaring, it rekindled it in my mind." Steve's operation is relatively small, he uses a wood fire, buckets to collect sap, and creates a small output of syrup.