Day two of the PASA gardening saw a lot of productive activities for both the lessons and the garden! We're done for the day and bushed !
With our faithful crew we went out to the gardening site and began some preemptive weeding and edging of the garden. The side nearest the market looks better than ever from just a little bit of weeding.
Afterwards we decided to do some cooking! Salsa is an easy way to integrate organic food into a basic lesson about where our food products come from. The students could relate to where their store brought salsa actually came from. They now know that they don;t need to go to the store to make their favorite Plus the best part is eating it!!
Friday, July 11, 2008
Thursday, July 10, 2008
Summer Garden Fun
Today marks the second day of the intensive for the Community Garden and PASA. The students are currently in middle school and have signed up for the project through PASA's summer programming.
The first day included a review of what a community garden is, why it is important, where our food comes from, what GMO's are, and what they're favorite veggies are.
Eventually after a bit of discussion we all traveled down to the site of the garden and reviewed what wee would have to do and how the garden would look when we where done with it. Then we had a quick clean up of the lot.
After some discussion about possible mural ideas the day was over.
We'll have to see what today holds for our young gardeners!
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Monday, July 7, 2008
Gothic Vision
For those of you scared of ghost, cemeteries, and zombies read on no further.
For everyone else check out our latest project! The Revitalization of the St. Patrick's Cemetery Wall. This big thinking project started out as a small idea to spruce up the Douglas Ave. At first the Community Congress thought that the wall could be painted a base color and then have either a mural or a "Welcome to Smith Hill/ Chad Brown" slogan stretch across both Douglas Ave. and Chad Brown St.
After some deliberation one of the members suggested putting in plants instead because they 1) would require less maintenance 2) wouldn't attract graffiti.
The rest of the Congress agreed and so we went on to create a proposal to present to the Arch Diocese. With the Arch-Diocese on board the Congress went about the dirty business of ordering the plants. But of course nothing ever goes according to plans.
With the constant guidance of Frey Flowers the Community Congress tried to order Nasturtiums, Comos, and Hanging Ivies but most plants by this time had been sold out by the whole sellers. There was a possibility though that we could get Geraniums and Cosmos. And so we went ahead with the planting intending to plant the annuals later in the fall and spring.
And so *viola* there you have a collection of planting pictures! Look at how hard professors, students, environmental group members, and of course Community Congress people work together. Check the Flickr website for more pictures !!!
For everyone else check out our latest project! The Revitalization of the St. Patrick's Cemetery Wall. This big thinking project started out as a small idea to spruce up the Douglas Ave. At first the Community Congress thought that the wall could be painted a base color and then have either a mural or a "Welcome to Smith Hill/ Chad Brown" slogan stretch across both Douglas Ave. and Chad Brown St.
After some deliberation one of the members suggested putting in plants instead because they 1) would require less maintenance 2) wouldn't attract graffiti.
The rest of the Congress agreed and so we went on to create a proposal to present to the Arch Diocese. With the Arch-Diocese on board the Congress went about the dirty business of ordering the plants. But of course nothing ever goes according to plans.
With the constant guidance of Frey Flowers the Community Congress tried to order Nasturtiums, Comos, and Hanging Ivies but most plants by this time had been sold out by the whole sellers. There was a possibility though that we could get Geraniums and Cosmos. And so we went ahead with the planting intending to plant the annuals later in the fall and spring.
And so *viola* there you have a collection of planting pictures! Look at how hard professors, students, environmental group members, and of course Community Congress people work together. Check the Flickr website for more pictures !!!
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