2023-01-27 Meeting notes

Resources

• Family and Adult Learners

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.
    • Eden interns can help with something
• 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
    • UT Farmer's Market twice a month
    • Think creatively about places to find volunteers to the right groups
  • 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?
  • Teachers will email Emily plants that their classes will be interested in 
  • Emily will collect list of things to grow and map out where things will be planted.
• Add garden to PFL!

Research Craziness

Thinkery Professional Development Plans

Amanda out next week