With the weather cooling down, summer plants producing bountiful harvest and kiddos giddy to get back to classrooms, schoolyard gardens across KC are ready for their yearly back to school prep. For coordinators, that means enrolling, making a planting plan, attending a demonstration workshop and prepping garden beds for use in the fall! Complete your […]
Winter is officially here and trips to your schoolyard garden probably won’t be happening until you plant again in March. Keep your students interested and talking about the garden with some easy garden-themed activities you could do in the classroom. Discuss what your students did and did not enjoy about the garden and have the […]
Vegetables from your schoolyard garden not only feed students, their bright colorations can also spark some creativity! Students who enjoy beets in the spring and fall will notice that the dark red juices from the beets can stain hands, and even clothes. Because of its strong red color, beets can be used to dye fabric, yarn, […]
