Starting Seeds... Planning the Garden...

Our gardeners are getting started!

What to do in the garden in March!

 

Seeds!

 

The best kind of mail - boxes of seeds! Our gardeners will be starting these indoors, to be transplanted into the school plots later on. Most of our seeds came from Botanical Interests this year - a Colorado-based seed company. The rest are from Territorial Seed Company, based in the Pacific Northwest.

A bright, cold evening in February.

 

A bright, cold evening in February.

"For Your Garden” (author unknown)

Plant three rows of peas:

Peas of mind, peas of heart. peas of soul.

Four rows of squash:

Squash gossip, squash indifference, squash grumbling, squash selfishness.

Four rows of lettuce: 

Lettuce be faithful, lettuce be kind, lettuce be patient, lettuce really love each other.

No garden should be without turnips: 

Turnip for service, turnip for gatherings, turnip to help one another, turnip the music and dance.

And finally, you must have thyme:  

Thyme for work, thyme for rest, thyme for each other, and thyme for watching sunsets.

The Seeds of Lasting Peace

Patience is an enormously supportive and even magical practice. It’s a way of completely shifting the fundamental human habit of trying to resolve things by either going to the right or the left, labeling things “good” or labeling them “bad.” It’s the way to develop fearlessness, the way to contact the seeds of war and the seeds of lasting peace—and to decide which ones we want to nurture.

 

Excerpted from Practicing Peace by Pema Chödrön

 

 

It's a Planting Party!

Saturday, May 15 is our first Annual Planting Party!

We're getting started around 9 am. Please show up any time and stay as long as you like. We'll have a swap table for seeds and seedlings, gardening help available, and some exciting Garden Talks throughout the day.

Schedule:

 

8 AM - 12 PM - The school building will be open for bathroom use. Masks must be worn at all times inside the school building.

9 AM and all day - Gardening help - a green dot on someone's name tag indicates that they are available to answer questions and offer assistance

11 AM - Organic Gardening 101 - Michele

12 PM - Crop Rotation - Catherine

1 PM - Gardening and the Environment - John

Get your garden planted while getting to know your fellow community gardeners. We can't wait to see you!