Garden volunteers needed for summer maintenance!
Want to help keep the garden going strong over the summer? Duties will include watering, weeding, and helping harvest if needed. Don't worry! Further instructions will be provided later. Families can sign up for a week, but you are welcome to sign up for more than one shift.
Spring 2024
We have had a very busy spring in the garden! In February, students planted heirloom tomatoes, peppers, and flower seeds. The seedlings will be planted in the garden in May as well as be sold at our Inaugural Jessie Beck Seedling Sale Sunday May 5th 9am - 12pm!
March was our Garden Art Workshops. Our Pre-K and Kinder students read "Only One You" and painted rocks to decorate the space. Our 1st - 4th grade students used washable glue to batik peace flags to hang over the garden. The 5th graders continued our tradition of painting legacy pavers that will be in the garden for years to come. With all of the beautiful tulips and daffodils blooming, the space is vibrant and welcoming!
In April, the students learned all about beneficial bugs in the garden. Dean Briggs helped us get cool specimens for the students to see native bugs up close. They also were able to search in the garden and kinder playground for live bugs to observe. Students caught roly-polys, box elders, and even a jumping spider that were later released.
March was our Garden Art Workshops. Our Pre-K and Kinder students read "Only One You" and painted rocks to decorate the space. Our 1st - 4th grade students used washable glue to batik peace flags to hang over the garden. The 5th graders continued our tradition of painting legacy pavers that will be in the garden for years to come. With all of the beautiful tulips and daffodils blooming, the space is vibrant and welcoming!
In April, the students learned all about beneficial bugs in the garden. Dean Briggs helped us get cool specimens for the students to see native bugs up close. They also were able to search in the garden and kinder playground for live bugs to observe. Students caught roly-polys, box elders, and even a jumping spider that were later released.
Fall 2023
We had a very busy fall in the garden in November, our older students planted tulips and daffodils using an auger on a drill, they had a blast with the power tools! The younger students planted cold hardy plants in the greenhouse and cold frames.
In December, we got a new shed thanks to donations and grant funding! It will be amazing having the tools so close by! The students learned about the importance of composting to reduce waste in the landfill, and they got to visit the two resident worm factories currently housed in Ms. Magee’s and Ms. Hurley’s classrooms!
In December, we got a new shed thanks to donations and grant funding! It will be amazing having the tools so close by! The students learned about the importance of composting to reduce waste in the landfill, and they got to visit the two resident worm factories currently housed in Ms. Magee’s and Ms. Hurley’s classrooms!
August 2023
Watch Us Grow!
We are so excited to welcome students back to the garden. Over the summer we had amazing families volunteer to help keep everything growing. In July we harvested the garlic planted by the students last October. We had a blast representing the school at the Reno Garlic Fest, and we sold lots of garlic! The garden also received the Whole Kids Foundation $3000 grant. This funding, along with our garlic sales, will help supplement our monthly workshops as well as make any improvements for the garden for years to come. Follow us on Instagram @jessiebeckschoolgarden!
Watch Us Grow!
We are so excited to welcome students back to the garden. Over the summer we had amazing families volunteer to help keep everything growing. In July we harvested the garlic planted by the students last October. We had a blast representing the school at the Reno Garlic Fest, and we sold lots of garlic! The garden also received the Whole Kids Foundation $3000 grant. This funding, along with our garlic sales, will help supplement our monthly workshops as well as make any improvements for the garden for years to come. Follow us on Instagram @jessiebeckschoolgarden!
May 2023
The Jessie Beck Elementary School Garden is so excited to announce we were the recipient of the Home Depot Operation Surprise! We were gifted two greenhouses, composting bins, an irrigation upgrade, a shed, two wheelbarrows, and lots of tools. 30 volunteers from Home Depot stores around our area spent the entire day Friday May 5th assembling the greenhouses in the kindergarten playground. We are so thankful for this amazing gift, and we can't wait to share with our students!
Keep Growing! Follow us on Instagram @JessieBeckGardenClub
The Jessie Beck Elementary School Garden is so excited to announce we were the recipient of the Home Depot Operation Surprise! We were gifted two greenhouses, composting bins, an irrigation upgrade, a shed, two wheelbarrows, and lots of tools. 30 volunteers from Home Depot stores around our area spent the entire day Friday May 5th assembling the greenhouses in the kindergarten playground. We are so thankful for this amazing gift, and we can't wait to share with our students!
Keep Growing! Follow us on Instagram @JessieBeckGardenClub
September 2022
We kicked off our first month in the garden with our Garden Salsa Workshop. We had 18 classes, almost 400 students, visit the garden. Our wonderful parent volunteers read "Harvesting Friends/Cosechando Amigos" in both English and Español, and we made a salsa from a recipe in the book. Most of the students were willing to try the salsa, and many liked it enough to want to make it again at home. The students were able to see how much the vegetables and flowers that they planted in the spring grew over the summer. It was wonderful to see them enjoy the beautiful space they created.
Our two worm factories found their homes for the year in Ms. Champagne's and Ms. Condon's classes. The students will feed and tend to the worms over the winter. They will get to see how the worms break down compost to create wonderful "Black Gold" worm casts that will help enrich our garden's soil. We will be learning more about composting in November.
Keep Growing! Follow us on Instagram @JessieBeckGardenClub
We kicked off our first month in the garden with our Garden Salsa Workshop. We had 18 classes, almost 400 students, visit the garden. Our wonderful parent volunteers read "Harvesting Friends/Cosechando Amigos" in both English and Español, and we made a salsa from a recipe in the book. Most of the students were willing to try the salsa, and many liked it enough to want to make it again at home. The students were able to see how much the vegetables and flowers that they planted in the spring grew over the summer. It was wonderful to see them enjoy the beautiful space they created.
Our two worm factories found their homes for the year in Ms. Champagne's and Ms. Condon's classes. The students will feed and tend to the worms over the winter. They will get to see how the worms break down compost to create wonderful "Black Gold" worm casts that will help enrich our garden's soil. We will be learning more about composting in November.
Keep Growing! Follow us on Instagram @JessieBeckGardenClub
2021-2022 School Year
Photos at the beginning of school 2016
GARDEN HISTORY
On a beautiful, sunny day in March 2015, a group of parents and staff built the new beds in our school garden...
Almost half of the classes participated the first season and Hearts and Spades Garden Club was born.
Garden Project Scope: the new Jessie Beck Garden will serve as a space to conduct hands-on outdoor/science learning and provide a community-building activity that is educational and fun. Students will learn teamwork, responsibility, science, patience, critical thinking, and how to get dirty:). Come grow with us!!
On a beautiful, sunny day in March 2015, a group of parents and staff built the new beds in our school garden...
Almost half of the classes participated the first season and Hearts and Spades Garden Club was born.
Garden Project Scope: the new Jessie Beck Garden will serve as a space to conduct hands-on outdoor/science learning and provide a community-building activity that is educational and fun. Students will learn teamwork, responsibility, science, patience, critical thinking, and how to get dirty:). Come grow with us!!
Pictures from 2015, our first harvesting season.
"THANK YOU!" to Parker Hardscape Supply, Green Earth Landscapes, and Reno Rock for their contributions to the garden project!!