It’s hard to believe November is here! With the falling temperatures it might seem that work in the garden is coming to an end, but until Kansas City receives a deep freeze there is still a lot to do in the garden. Here are a few things to add to your To Do list. Harvest […]
Spotlight: Emerson Elementary Pumpkin Patch
This week we are highlighting the hard work of the student gardeners at Emerson Elementary. Emerson is a Kansas City, KS Public School. The garden was started by teacher, Maggie Scanlon, in 2013. The school has two raised beds, two apple trees and a pumpkin patch. We asked Maggie to share some of the successes […]
Digging for Gold (Harvesting Sweet Potatoes)
Smoothies and Salads: Snacks from the Garden
The after-school LINC program at Gladstone Elementary School has been enjoying a bountiful fall harvest! Earlier this season children planted kale, broccoli, cabbage, lettuce, collard greens, spinach, mustard greens, and beets in their raised bed garden plots and eagerly awaited picking the maturing crops. Two months later, students harvested enough lettuce, spinach, and radishes from […]
Bringing The Garden Into The Classroom
After weeks of tending the gardens, preschool students are starting to enjoy the fruits of their labor. Recently, I stopped by a few schools to see different ways teachers are incorporating the garden into their lessons for the day. Ms. Hamme’s classroom at St Joseph Catholic school learned about a popular Mexican snack their teacher […]
Small Garden Feeds Entire School
In 2015 Winnwood Elementary was awarded a grant from their district, North Kansas City Schools, to construct two raised beds. With support from the district’s Food and Nutrition Services department the garden has impacted the entire school. Mrs. Gates’ 3rd grade class plants and cares for the garden. The garden sits in a courtyard that […]
Meet Hannah, KCCG’s New Schoolyard Garden Assistant!
Greetings everyone! My name is Hannah and I am the new Schoolyard Gardens Assistant here at KCCG. So far my time here has been full of visiting different schools and planting lots of lettuce, kale, broccoli, collards, and radishes and I’ve loved every minute of it! My passion for gardening and working with kids comes […]
Richardson Family Garden
This fall, Richardson Early Childhood Center of KCMO offered five 4 x 12 raised garden beds to families. With a Schoolyard Garden Assistant, these families will learn how to plant, properly water, weed and mulch. This will also bring opportunity to families to meet one another, creating more of a community feeling at Richardson. The […]
Young Gardeners “Sprout” in the Garden
On Wednesday, August 30th, Schoolyard Gardens had the second “Sprout in the Garden” lesson with Plaza Willow Montessori, a local Kansas City early childhood learning center. Schoolyard Gardens staff helped the children reseed raised beds of beets and carrots, and instructed them on proper thinning techniques for the lettuce and spinach planted the week before. […]
Students’ Garden Extends the Classroom
Last week students from Wendall Phillips Elementary, in the Kansas City Public School District, planted their eight raised beds with fall vegetables. The garden is used by the 3rd – 6th grade classes, each classroom chose two or three vegetables to plant in their raised bed. Students entered the garden ready to learn and get […]