A Gardening Day!

Another beautiful day for a field trip.  We visited the garden at the south end of town and had a wonderful day.  We planted garlic and took a tour of the garden.  We tasted fennel, arugula, green beans, yellow beat greens, and red beat greens.  Each first grader picked at least one decorative corn to bring home.  We also brought corn husks back to Dike Newell to use to decorate. 

These were the garlic seeds.  We planted about 200!

First graders were  a very captive audience.

These are the seeds in the ground.

Here is a beautiful younger sibling and mom of  one of my first graders.

We had to pat the soil once we put the seeds in the ground. 

Then we covered the seeds with hay to keep them warm.

Here is a view of the garden.

The volunteers were so helpful!

Here is one of my extremely dedicated volunteers.