Plant Sale and Summer Class

LERNING GARDEN NEWS

GROW YOUR GARDEN

Annual Plant Sale at Saint Martin's Learning Garden

April 29, 30 & May 1st from 11-2pm in the garden adjacent to the cafeteria patio.

This year, in addition to the usual variety of vegetables, flowers, herbs and berries, we will have an assortment of garden planters made from repurposed materials by student intern Steven Caron.

Throughout the summer quarter the Learning Garden will be offering workshops on how to make some these fun garden projects including:

Vertical Pallet Gardens, Terra cotta Hanging Pot Planters, Repurposed Glass Planters, Beach, Wood Planters, Hanging Gutter Gardens, Garden Totems, Birdhouses, Birdfeeders.

TAKE A SUMMER CLASS (3CR.)! Get outside and learn.

COM395: Ora et Labora: Contemplation and Work in the Garden  (3cr.)

This course has three components: 1. Hands on work in the Learning Garden, planting, tending and harvesting fruits and vegetables for Thurston County Food Bank. 2. Researching local and global issues related to food production and distribution. 3. Creating media stories based on research,m contemplation, and the hands-on experience of working in the soil. Students may take either or both sessions.

Main Summer Session

Fridays, 9am-12:20pm

Instructor: Sky Myers

SERVE

Volunteers needed! Contact Sky Myers (svdervish@gmail.com) if you would like to help with the plant sale, planting or if you have plants to donate!

All sale proceeds go towards the Learning Garden. The vegetables grown in the garden go to the Thurston County Food Bank.

Read more about the garden here http://sustainablesaints.blogspot.com/

Harvest Time!

Hello Everyone!
It is been a while since we planted these vegetables and it is time to harvest them! Please take these colorful and delicious veggies home and make a great salad for your healthy dinner! Plenty of fruits and veggies are waiting for you! We have tomatoes, broccoli,  peas, blueberries, radishes and beats! If you have enough patience for several weeks more, carrots will come soon! 

Happy to harvest! Yay!!!

If you come to the garden, you will also find these amazing lilies. This time we have dozens of them and it looks  just like a royal garden now. 

By the way, if you are lucky, you may see moles running in ivies! They are super cute! But I was not as fast as them to take a picture.:(

Anyway, come to the garden and explore unlimited surprises!

Flower Blooming Season

Last Friday,June 20, as usual, Dave, and some students came to help in the garden. I  saw these beautiful Daylilies on that day. Before that, I had only white lilies in my mind and I also considered lilies to represent something pure like the color white. But this amazing orange color as you see in the photo is just right for the passion of summer. All I want on this sunny summer afternoon is to be sitting down in a quiet garden with a cup of tea and to be appreciating these special flowers. They are different from my thoughts before, and they look very pleasant with the sunshine. I was thinking that must be the sun that gave them such great color.

By the way, lilies are not only ones worth noticing! These blueberries are almost ready. See the changing colors from green to purple? It is always amazing to see how plants are growing. They may not change during the five minutes that you  are staring at them,  but check in after a week! You will be surprised  how much they did grow!

And feel free to come! We all will be there every Fridays 2- 4 pm. Actually in this garden, you are welcome anytime to visit!

Enjoy the great summer!