New Recipe Video – Quick Pickled Red Onions
Check out Claire’s new video on how to make quick pickled onions! This fast and simple recipe showcases a delicious and refreshing way to use onions from your garden. This video shows how to make quick pickled onions using red onions, but you can use this same recipe on other onions, as well as carrots, […]
New Recipe Video- Grated Raw Beet Salad
This week we’d like to highlight another one of our brand new garden recipe videos – Grated Raw Beet Salad! This citrusy, bright recipe makes a wonderfully fresh side dish, just perfect for the hotter days ahead. This recipe is also simple, utilizing a few pantry staples along with the beets and herbs from your […]
Researching Vegetables to Grow
Mother nature teased us with 70 degree spring weather last week only to greet us with ice and snow this week. No problem, it’s still time to start planning out and ordering for your spring garden. Not sure which vegetables you can plant in March? Refresh your memory with SYG Crop Varieties. Get your students involved […]
5 Fun Ways to Celebrate Earth Day
Having a garden or orchard at your school means that you’re already a wonderful steward of the earth. Take a minute to give yourself a pat on the back, because you celebrate Earth Day every day! In honor of the official Earth Day, we are taking a break from our Get Growing blog series to […]
Get Growing: Take Home Garden Kits
Back by popular demand, we are now officially offering our Take Home Garden Kits again this season! Thanks to our Bilingual Outreach Coordinator, Gabriel, and our Community Partner Gardens Coordinator, Amanda, we are now able to offer these kits in Spanish as well as English! The intention behind these kits is to give teachers and […]
Get Growing: How to Make a Planting Plan
I’ve talked with many of our garden coordinators over the past few weeks and as we gear up for spring, the sentiment seems to be the same – Yay! It’s garden planning season! And they are exactly right! Spring is on her way and it’s almost time to plant those cool season crops! Making a […]
How to Thin Your Seedlings
This spring, supporting our Schoolyard Garden members looks a lot different. SYG coordinators want to remind you that although we are not physically checking in with our schools, we are still here for you! We will continue to support our teachers by posting garden related lesson plans twice a week on our SYG Blog, answering […]
From Greenhouse to Garden
Here at Kansas City Community Gardens our mission is to empower and inspire low-income households, community groups, and schools in the Kansas City Metropolitan area to grow their own vegetables and fruit. We absolutely could not do that without our wonderful Greenhouse Manager, Stacy. Stacy has been busy this February getting flats filled and planted […]
Not-So-Obvious Lessons from Gardening
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 […]