Preparing for the Winter

Sounds like a normal thing to do for this time of the year or even earlier, but we are having extraordinary high temperatures and our eggplants, tomatoes and summer squash are still producing a little despite the drought.

But we started to prepare for the winter some beds. In the first few weeks of school the children harvested all the pumpkins, the watermelons, the sunflowers and corn, so we were able to clean up those.

It was looking like a super hard task for the garden volunteers to till all the big crops, but the Cincinnati Slow Food came to our rescue. The 25th of September was the National Slow Food Day of Service and a group of volunteer from the Cincinnati Slow food came to help us till the beds and enjoy some food at the end. For the ones of you who are not familiar with this organization "Slow Food is a no-profit global, grassroots organization with supporters in 150 countries around the world who are linking the pleasure of good food with a commitment to their community and the environment".


Cincinnati Slow Food, thanks for helping our school garden!

Celebrating the end of the harvest season

We had such a good time teaching children about harvesting, seeding, composting, etc.
Our Wilson Garden table had a great success. We were at the Wilson Fall Festival selling: seeds harvested and packaged in recycled paper by our students; tickets to raffle the 8 pumpkins harvested by the students in our garden; very nice gift bows made out of recycled paper by Diana Reynolds; and garden alphabet and message stepping stones with paint donated by GREENER STOCK.

 All of this thanks to the enthusiasm of teachers and students and the time donated by our Garden Committee volunteers (and their patient husbands and kids): Alisha Molloy, Diane Reynolds, Kirsten Stilgenbauer , Jennifer Donnellan,  Rebecca Sievers and Susan Prince.


We also shared the table with Cassandra Farm at the last day of Anderson Farmer's Market, in the company of David Lindquist owner of Cassandra Farm and our gardening knowledge source/main Wilson Garden project helper. People were amazed learning what we have been doing at Wilson Elementary and were more than happy to buy our products to support the garden.