With schoolyard gardens in full swing, many spring vegetables have grown and are ready to harvest. Parker Elementary students, along with the school’s Nurse Anderson, harvested a spring salad mix. They overwintered spinach using a row cover frame, and were able to harvest spinach throughout the winter and spring that they planted last fall! The […]
Season Extension Coming to Schoolyard Gardens!
Our schoolyard gardens team has worked creatively to fit the growing season into the school calendar. Unfortunately vegetable garden seasons do not fit into the typical academic year, so we try and work around this in a variety of ways! We encourage schools to plant crop varieties with shorter maturity times and have planted larger […]