School Garden

The school that the kids go to has a garden. One of the teachers worked her butt off writing grants to make it happen. Several years ago, a big slab of concrete was cut away from the parking lot to make a combined school and community garden area. It's so awesome. Every school should have one.

On Wednesdays of every week, she runs an after school garden club. All ages, kindergarten through 8th grade. In the three years that I've had a kid there, I've gone to all the garden meetings, but I've never had the kids in the club. Only because Baby made it a wee bit of a pain. BUT, they're continuing the club through the summer, and now Baby is old enough to do her own thing in there, so we've been going since school let out.

I don't know why I've never taken any pictures before. It's a pretty awesome spot. So a couple weeks ago, I threw my camera over my shoulder and took photos of Garden Club happenings.
This is standing on the school side, looking toward the community garden area. The rose bush, raspberries, strawberries, and huckleberries divide the two spots.

You can see the raspberries, on the left, better in this photo.

These poppies are amazing.

A closer view of the community side.

And these are all shots of the school side.

Lettuce.

Zucchini.

Shasta Daisies.

Yarro.

Celery.

The perimeter is planted with vines and perennials.

Honeysuckle.

Crocosmia.

Clematis.

More honeysuckle.

More Crocosmia.

Day Lilies.

Borage.

The project of the day: A concrete stepping stone made with a rhubarb leaf.

And lots of weeding and harvesting.

Baby and the teacher's daughter, munchin' on rhubarb muffins.

There's tons of Sunflowers coming up in all the beds.

Nasturtiums.

Lots of California Poppies.

The goods for the day.

If you'd like to check out the garden's blog, you can do that here:
Vestal Community Garden Blog
Their Facebook page is here:
Vestal Community Garden on Facebook

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