We hope you had a wonderful Earth Day celebrating our beautiful planet! By now most of your schoolyard gardens are growing rapidly and veggies like radishes, green onions, arugula, and spinach are ready to be tasted and harvested for fresh spring salads! Slower crops like potatoes, beets and carrots are just now starting to […]
Quick, pop quiz! It lightly showered for an hour yesterday, do you need to water your garden today? Is it enough to water each garden bed for 2 minutes, 3 times per week? The answers are YES, you still need to water your garden even if it lightly showered for an hour yesterday, and NO, […]
These past couple weeks have been a crazy whirlwind of traveling to schools all over the city to deliver plants and seeds and assist teachers and students with planting their schoolyard gardens. Tiring? Yes! But, so much fun and incredibly inspiring! I love the obvious aspects of a planting season – being in the […]
Hopefully, nobody lost sleep over the threat of frost this weekend! Saturday’s snow was a harmless, wet snow that didn’t accumulate too much. If you haven’t planted your garden, be sure to get planting this week to ensure a harvest or two before school’s out for the summer. Read these tips to help you […]
I should whisper this in case I jinx it, but I think spring and warmer weather have finally arrived! To get our preschools excited to be back in the garden, I visited a few over the past couple weeks to do some pre-spring garden activities. At Country Kids and El Centro, we brought gardening […]
We’re so excited it’s finally planting season – watch this short video to learn three fast and easy steps to prepare your garden for spring planting! For more garden videos, click this link: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCKaSb5iCc_UtubC61H_JU_A Don’t forget to subscribe to our YouTube channel to see more garden tips and tricks!
This post was written by students at Accelerated Schools of Overland Park. Here at the Accelerated Schools of Overland Park, we host an Environmental Science class. As part of this class, we maintain a school garden which has three eight-foot by four-foot raised beds. This past fall, we completed our harvest of tomatoes, herbs, […]
Cold Kansas City temperatures have some our school districts scheduling their last day of school well into the first part of June! It feels like forever since we’ve been able to spend time gardening in the warm sun! But here at KCCG, spring is in the air, at least in our greenhouse! Since February, […]
A few weeks ago, Crystal and I had the opportunity to attend a week long conference in Santa Cruz, California. The School Garden Support Organization Leadership Institute was hosted by LifeLabs and one of our generous supporters, the Whole Kids Foundation. Over the course of the week we had the chance to network with […]
Despite all this crazy weather, we’ve been busy all winter building new gardens at schools across the Kansas City metro! A few weeks ago, we built a garden with the students at Hawthorn Elementary and it was such a blast! We put together this short video so you can experience a garden construction along with […]
