We have started our garden program with the students at Jessie Beck Elementary! The Jessie Beck Garden Club is making great progress as our team and grant money have come together for this school year! Our mission and goal is: To involve the students as much as possible in learning how to grow a garden, feed our bodies healthy food, and treat our earth with respect.
EACH MONTH we will have a new focus activity project. For 20-30 minutes one of our Garden Club members will provide a short lesson/activity for your child's classroom to enjoy in our garden area. It will consist of hands-on instruction and interactive lecture. We will love to have you help our garden grow!
OCTOBER 18-28:
Planting a Winter Garden- The kids will be planting tulip bulbs, garlic, kale, and onions in the school garden. We will be learning about how/why certain bulbs and vegetables grow well in the cold months. We will learn how to successfully take care of our young plants.
NOVEMBER 8-12:
Compost: Our school will begin a compost program! How does compost work? Lets find out! During this month we will learn about what makes good compost and how it is used to make our earth a cleaner, better place! Your classroom can have its own "compost bin"!!
DECEMBER 6-10: Sprouting Seeds- We will check up on our young winter crops and see what we need to do to help encourage them to grow. We will identify what plants are growing. Clean up , weeding the garden beds are all necessary to ensure good growth throughout the winter months.
Come grow with us!
Whitney Weed and
The Jessie Beck Garden Club Volunteers
whitneyweed@gmail.com
EACH MONTH we will have a new focus activity project. For 20-30 minutes one of our Garden Club members will provide a short lesson/activity for your child's classroom to enjoy in our garden area. It will consist of hands-on instruction and interactive lecture. We will love to have you help our garden grow!
OCTOBER 18-28:
Planting a Winter Garden- The kids will be planting tulip bulbs, garlic, kale, and onions in the school garden. We will be learning about how/why certain bulbs and vegetables grow well in the cold months. We will learn how to successfully take care of our young plants.
NOVEMBER 8-12:
Compost: Our school will begin a compost program! How does compost work? Lets find out! During this month we will learn about what makes good compost and how it is used to make our earth a cleaner, better place! Your classroom can have its own "compost bin"!!
DECEMBER 6-10: Sprouting Seeds- We will check up on our young winter crops and see what we need to do to help encourage them to grow. We will identify what plants are growing. Clean up , weeding the garden beds are all necessary to ensure good growth throughout the winter months.
Come grow with us!
Whitney Weed and
The Jessie Beck Garden Club Volunteers
whitneyweed@gmail.com
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!!
