Living Laboratory Becomes Certified Schoolyard Habitat!

The Living Laboratory applied to become a certified schoolyard habitat with the National Wildlife Federation. To become a Schoolyard Habitat the garden had to include food, water, shelter and space for wildilfe to live in. Keep an eye out for the official Schoolyard Habitat sign in the Living Laboratory soon!! To read more about it, visit the National Wildlife Federation website at www.nwf.org/schoolyard

Potatoes!!!

Today the Second Grade at ECS harvested a WHOPPING 179 potatoes. Come to the Fall Festival to taste these delicious, home grown potatoes!

Next Garden Club Meeting!

It’s time for the next Garden Club Meeting! This will be the last meeting of the year. We will reconvene in the spring. Please mark your calendar for Saturday November 20th from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm.
When? : Saturday November 20th from 10 am to 2 pm

Where?: Living Laboratory (in the front of ECS)

What do I bring?: Tools, water, snack and smiles! If anyone has a pickup truck we need it!! We need to haul away all the cuttings and weeds to Ag Recycle.

What are we doing?: We will be putting the garden to bed for the winter. All perennials will be cut back and any weeds will be pulled. The edible garden will be cut down and removed for planting next year.
Please RSVP for this meeting ASAP. If you have a pickup truck and we can borrow it for the next meeting, please let me know.

Three Sisters Garden is Growing!

The three sister vegetable garden is growing fast! Come to the garden to see how the corn, squash and beans are growing together. It is the perfect example of a symbiotic relationship! The beans are slowly wrapping around the corn and the squash is providing shade and protection to the roots of both the bean and corn plants. The squash plants have also  started to flower so very soon we will have delicious yellow squash to munch on.