Playground | All | Emily and Adriana and class is doing all playground setup, cleanup, etc. Divide into two teams and alternate weeks for the meeting. @Stephanie Kranchick will send calendar invites, post in the office, and email it out. Chat about time management issues with @Stephanie Kranchick !! Eden Interns - @Adriana Threet and @Becca Paige Rosenfield help with garden
|
Odds & Ends | | Office OLE! site Bonnie with Sprouting Teachers Good lettuce and spinach. Lots of dead things. How to share limited resource? If you just cut the leaves of lettuce (and spinach), it'll keep growing. Tear up into bites for students can try. If you have two plants, but have each taste a bite sized tear and vote on which they like best. Kids can cut it too! Add a dip or salt
Wash it in a tub.
Even though plants look dead, they're just dormant (resting). Lemon trees are gone. They're growing back from below the graft. Replace with another lemon tree?? Fruit tree options: Pomegranate tree. Fig tree, but gets huge and can be irritating to skin. Think about maintenance. For moss, maybe not enough moisture. Family Day for playground - Outdoor Lab Collab and Social Committee work together End of March Two groups could do the planning. Let the parents do the planning. Warm season planting - first two weeks of March (tomatoes-deep rooted, cucumbers-climbing, peppers, squash, zucchini, eggplant, green beans-climbing) - everything transplants Add a lair of compost before planting spring vegetables To plant something for summer, wait until the end of semester (planting pumpkins in April will be ready in October) Vegetables take a lot of sun Could move the native plants from the big shed area and plant there. But maybe too close to trike path? Need to find a sunny place for vegetables Now is the perfect time to move perennials.
How classes plant: Come up with a master plan to show where things will be planted and have classes sign-up to plant them.
Composting soil exploration over by the in-ground area (mushroom or cotton bur compost) Verma composter - contained. Younger kids are fascinated with it. Check boxes before purchasing anything. Think about the location (if things go wrong). What does active management look like? Turning it.Balancing what you're putting in.
August Need to be a work day Inventory and organization of shed Make garden part of weekly meetings and have an agenda. Will get shortened version of garden leadership meetings Wake garden up and get rid of old dead plants Update or review watering schedule (haven't needed one) Schedule for outreach in sororities and fraternities Ongoing professional development about gardening once a semester about actual gardening Two months each Friday meeting. In Folder.
Next meeting in February - what does that purchase look like? Add garden to PFL!
Research Craziness Thinkery Professional Development Plans Amanda out next week |