Get involved!

All ISES families are invited to get involved in the school’s community garden. We need novices and experts to help plan, design and dig this sophomore year’s garden project. No experience is necessary! Getting involved is a great way to learn basic gardening skills with your school community.

If you missed tonight’s garden planning meeting, here are the goals set for the 2012 growing season:

-Build four more garden boxes (one with a plexiglass greenhouse for later harvests

-Implement more rain barrels for watering

-Plant more produce that is harvested later in year (squash, potatoes, tomatoes, carrots, herbs)

-Work towards getting families to use and eat the food the children are growing, reach out to community groups who could make use of the food

-Better signage on the garden so families can make better use of the produce through the summer.

-Making sure the children are kept involved in each step of the way, each grade will participate in starting the seeds inside and eventually planting the seedlings outdoors.

Also please consider donating the following items for the school garden: working garden hose, unused peat pots for seedlings and potting soil. If you are cleaning out the garage or see something at someone’s yard sale, please think of the Inglis Street Urban Garden. All donations can be dropped off at the office attention Ms. Pelly. Help us empower our children to learn where food comes from and how it grows. We are also hoping to have the use of a soil block mold for a few mornings the second week in April. If anyone has access to a soil block mold please contact Ms. Pelly at the school.

Watch for updates here for a work party date mid-May. During the work party we plan to build 4 additional boxes and clean up the school grounds along Robie Street. Already the benefits of last year’s work with bulbs starting to poke through.