Working through Spring Break

One of the tasks keeping me very busy since last October is our school garden project. I submitted a grant proposal through Lowe's Toolbox for Education, and our school was awarded $7000! Now I am coordinating the effort to make our dream garden a reality. This is turning out to be a slower process than planned, and more work as well.

Here is our yard before the project began.

Ten half wine barrels were donated a few weeks ago. We filled them with soil, and the kids were so excited!


Before Spring Break several classes planted seeds in their barrels and transplanted seeds that they had germinated inside. The garden needed tending during the break, so we made several visits.

Here they are planning what to plant.

Now they are sowing the seeds.

And watering them.

We returned to school yesterday, and this barrel already had many green sprouts: snap peas, radishes, and several kinds of lettuce. We'll post more photos soon!