Digging Potatoes
Every year, the 3rd and 4th graders harvest potatoes. Actually, we have a treasure hunt to see who can find the biggest and the smallest...
Apple Abundance!
We encourage our students to enjoy eating a fresh apple on their way to class. We let them know when they are ready to pick. See the sign...
Pizza Day
Pizza Day has finally arrived. The sauce is ready and all the fixings are waiting to top our pizza creations. Today we will make the...
Hollyhock Dolls
In the lazy days of our Indian Summer, the 1st grade girls made lovely hollyhock dolls. The large hollyhock blossoms made up the dress...
Preparing for Pizza: Making the Sauce
Every year the 5th/6th grade class makes pizza from the garden. Our first step is to make a yummy sauce from the garden tomatoes and...
Garden Classroom
We are so lucky to have a garden classroom. Today, we talked about water and learned three things: How much of all the water on the Earth...
Six Tastes of Ayurved
Ayurvedic Cooking is based on six tastes: sweet, salty, sour, punjent, bitter and astringent. Each taste supports or aggrevates the...
Senior SL Class Learns to Prune
On a warm spring day, the Sustainable Living Class had a crash course in pruning. The Garden of Bliss courtyard orchard contains twelve...
Planting Spring Spinach
Our first trip to the greenhouse for the 3/4 boys included raking and prepping the garden beds for spinach. Once the furrows are ready,...
"Muscle Up" in the Greenhouse
Do you know what muscles you're using when you work in the garden? Well, the 5th-6th grade classes took their Physiology lessons to the...
