Happy Spring.

The Garden Committee collaborated with community members Chris and Cindy Thompson to make a seed order through Johnny Seeds. Chris helped Clarice Glandin and Mrs Pelton set up the low tunnel. We planted lettuce inside. Chris brought his automatic seeder over and we planted peas QUICKLY.

Upcoming Corner Garden activities:

* Clarice Glandin, a Long Lake resident and indoor plant specialist, is helping us care for our indoor plants

* The garden committee will be moving garden materials from the speech and language classroom into the new shed out by the garden

* Ms Gannon and some of the students will plan murals to paint on the external walls of our new shed (the entire shed and most the paint was paid for by a grant we recieved through Cornell Cooperative Extension)

* We intend to be proactice this year at eliminating weeds by placing weed block paper down in the beds early in the spring

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This is a list of items we need for the garden.

Companion planting probably began when early gardeners noticed that some plants seemed to grow best when planted next to certain other plants. There is some science to back up this lore, but many still consider companion planting to be mostly unproven. Of course, gardeners can always try it to see if it works!

1. Children will begin to understand where their food comes from and be a part of the physical process of growing and harvesting food.
2. Children will gain a sense of the life cycle of plants and insects and the interconnectedness of all organisms.
3. Spending time in the garden will allow children to develop a strong connection to the natural world, and a future interest in protecting it.

Food should be healthy. Affordable. And produced with care for the environment; the women and men who grow, harvest, and serve it; and farm animals. But too often, our food system puts those
ideals out of reach. Our diets often cause more harm than good for ourselves and our environment, and many people don’t have the
money to eat a healthy diet. That’s where Food Day comes in. Food Day is a nationwide celebration on October 24th and a movement toward healthy, affordable, and sustainable food. Food Day is a grassroots campaign to help solve food-related problems in our homes, on our farms, in our schools, and in our communities. Together we can build better food policies and a stronger, more united food movement. Join the movement that’s changing the way America eats — visit FoodDay.org!

Garden Committee minutes from 5/21/11

May 2011 LLCS newsletter entry