Cooking with Greens, local Chef Josh Kenny Feb. 9th

Seed Exchange a big success last night at Coop Extension!

Had a great time with the EMGVs (Master Gardeners), community and school gardeners at the Seed Exchange last night at Cooperative Extension. Spring is just around the corner! Cynthia Nelsen, Guilford County School Garden Network Coordinator.

McLeansville receives a $5,000 Lowes Toolbox grant!

It’s always impressive to see a school do what it takes to start and then extend a school garden: McLeansville Elementary is doing this. And now they have received a Lowes Toolbox Grant to extend their garden!

With help from an enthusiastic and energetic crew, McLeansville's school garden went up last spring and is getting ready to grow! Master Gardener Mentor Carol Spratley, played a great supporting role along with a crew of teachers headed by 3rd/4th grade teacher Jamie Lee. Principal Shervawn Sockwell lends her strong support to the school gardening project.

Cherry tomato transplants were provided by Odile Huchette and Alex Wofford in the Reid Greenhouse at NCA&T as part of the Urban Ag program. Carol and Jamie attended our workshop in February and used the square foot gardening approach.

The whole student body is getting involved, here they are making observations in their journals of the their very own garden. We look forward to updates from this wonderful school as they expand their growing space with their support from Lowe's for their spring garden!

Endless Summer at Summerfield Elementary!

Lisa Thomas at Summerfield Elementary shares photos of their garden " we're still gardening even though its mid December!" 

Let us know if your school garden is still producing! You may need to cover them Fri and Sat night. 

Happy Holidays!

Tis the Season! Local cold season Best Practices that is!

The Horticultural expert ladies (Alex Wofford and Odille Huchette) at the Reid Greenhouse at NCA@T ready their outdoor beds and community pots for very cold temperatures predicted for Saturday and Sunday night. 

They use a row cover cloth which is semipermeable spunbonded polypropylene so that light and air can get through during the day while enough heat is trapped to keep the plants from suffering damage at night. They purchased this row cover material from Jonny Seeds but it is available from many other sources.

Happy Fall from Oak Ridge Elementary!

These pictures are of the COLTS GARDEN and the READING GARDEN at Oak Ridge Elementary. Shared by Mari Snipes, 5^th grade teacher.

The Aces Garden Club works hard on their Colts Garden!

The kids are creating just the right garden soil in the beds, mulching around muddy areas, and planting fall veggies.

The students can take a break and read in the reading portion of the garden. The older students help the younger ones with their planting.

Garden based learning is alive and well with Kindergarteners at Irving Park!

Teacher Marieke Maccione and her UNCG Service Learning student Sonny Yang led a lesson with kindergarteners about soil and life cycles in their garden right outside their classroom door. Caterpillars forming chrysalis, sweet potato plants maturing, planting young seedlings all going on.

Students dug soil samples, put them in zip lock bags and took them

back into the classroom.

Magnifying glasses were handed out for up close observations. Students made drawings and wrote descriptions in their science journals.

Every Monday Mrs. Maccione conducts garden based hands-on lessons with her students. The students love it and share with each other and their teacher and their Service Learning buddy what they discover!