An Art Contest for our Wilson Garden Wonder Logo

Thanks to the Art Teacher Kacey Watkins all the kids from 3dr grate to 6th grade participated in a contest to create the Logo for the school garden.

Each and everyone of the drawings were very tender and passionate. It was very difficult for the Garden Committee to pick one. So we selected 3 drawings and we let the kids chose the one. The winner is a a six grader and as a reward she won a Pumpkin grown in the garden. 
The logo tells you everything on how much the students love this garden.
We will soon post a slide shop of all the other drawings, keep checking on the blog in the coming days.

Harvesting is fun and tasting is delicious

Wilson students are back in the garden. Under the supervision of me, Kirsten Stilgenbauer, Alisha Molloy and Jennifer Donnellan the kids successfully and happily harvested the summer produce (tomatoes, summer squash, basil, pumpkins, water melon, eggplants, carrots sunflowers, lettuce seeds) 

and seeded the fall beds.

Many kids for the first time tried some of the veggies that they always believed to be not interesting to them. They found them surprisingly super delicious.


With the help of the teachers they learned all about corn, pollination, composting, plants needs, good and bad insects, wildlife visitors and more.


This fall the class involved in the Wilson school garden are 1st grade, 3rd grade, 4th grade. The 6th grade will be taking care of composting.

Ohio State University Buckeye Lady Beetle Blitz 2010 completed!

The last week of August we completed the second part of the data collection for the Buckeye Lady Beetle Blitz 2010 in our school garden. This time we were not so lucky. No ladybugs were collected in the August sampler, only many other insects. The researchers of the University lead by Dr. Mary Gardiner, will let us know what insects they will find on our samples besides the ladybugs we collected in June. 
I'm very proud of our little group of young Wilson students being involved in their first University research.

We were also mentioned on the Ohio State University - Agricultural Landscape Ecology Lab Blog, read below and click on the link.


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