Friday, July 30, 2010
TESC explores alternatives
Here is an article from the Olympian about TESC's exploration about becoming carbon neutral by 2020.
Thursday, July 29, 2010
First Harvest!
This Wednesday, we sampled our first golden heirloom tomato and harvested a box of boc choy
Rosemary models the first pick
Tanya samples a tasty morsel
Amanda holds the crop of boc choy. It was split between all who showed up to the work party. A portion went home to the Thurston County Food Bank with the food bank volunteers who came to help us garden.
Rosemary models the first pick
Tanya samples a tasty morsel
Amanda holds the crop of boc choy. It was split between all who showed up to the work party. A portion went home to the Thurston County Food Bank with the food bank volunteers who came to help us garden.
Tuesday, July 27, 2010
More Color!
Lately, colors of paint cans have been stacking up high in the garden shed and the garden is doubling as a mini art studio
Last week, Bridge students stopped by and helped us paint the bird houses that SMU writing specialist Cholee Gladney and music professor Brad Schrandt built for the garden fence
students Amanda and Rosemary painted demo houses before the Bridge students arrived
Turns out we have a crop of creative and helpful students this year
They got right to work and did an inspired job. Welcome to campus!
Last week, Bridge students stopped by and helped us paint the bird houses that SMU writing specialist Cholee Gladney and music professor Brad Schrandt built for the garden fence
students Amanda and Rosemary painted demo houses before the Bridge students arrived
Turns out we have a crop of creative and helpful students this year
They got right to work and did an inspired job. Welcome to campus!
Monday, July 26, 2010
What's Growing on in the Learning Garden
The garden has finally begun producing enough goodies we were obliged to share. Last Wednesday our volunteers were able to sample the Learning Garden's first ripe tomato, and take some of our boc choy home with them.
This week we have started harvesting the radishes.
The tomatoes continue to tempt us, by looking delicious.
A curious phenomenon is taking over the strawberry patch. This is the last known picture of this one. *Yum.*
This unfortunate phenomenon seems also to have spread to the raspberry box...
The squash has begun to develop fruit.
The sunflowers and corn continue to climb skyward.
The broccoli we planted last week is doing well.
And the newest blueberry plant is flourishing, though I have no idea where all the ripe berries went...
So that's what's been growing on in the garden.
Thanks to everyone who have been following us here, on the blog, and volunteering your time to help paint, harvest, weed, water, and keep our garden looking beautiful.
Monday, July 12, 2010
Garden Update...
There has been a lot of gardening going on. As you can see from all the pictures that are posted on here we have been busy. With all the help from the volunteers we got this garden up and running. We have many different vegetables growing and fruit. One plant just grew the first berry over the weekend and I got the joy of eating it, but not before I took a picture of the raspberry. They seem to be having a hard time growing right now but after seeing that one berry I have faith that those raspberries will grow.
Another update is that we are now having deer or some other kind of animal come up to the garden and they seem to like the carrots and strawberries because that is the only bed that seems to have their foot prints. Looks like we are going to be needing to build a fence to keep them out. That is going to be the next project to come.
Thursday, July 8, 2010
Garden Celebration and Blessing
See this article about the celebration in the Olympian.
Abbot Neal blesses the garden with holy water
President Heynderickx speaks
We eat a delicious cake made by Bon Appétit
Prof. Shawn Newman leads a ukulele sing along
Enjoying the garden
Watching it grow
We add our own wishes and blessings to the garden wall
Abbot Neal blesses the garden with holy water
President Heynderickx speaks
We eat a delicious cake made by Bon Appétit
Prof. Shawn Newman leads a ukulele sing along
Enjoying the garden
Watching it grow
We add our own wishes and blessings to the garden wall
Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Art in the Garden
Artist Bill Wilson donates his metal sculpture to our garden! You can also check out Wilson's work at the Monarch Sculpture Garden.
Tuesday, July 6, 2010
In one month!
We started the garden on June 2, 2010. By July 2, 2010 this is what it looks like! Thanks to the SMU and local community volunteers. Now let's celebrate! Come to the garden tomorrow at 1pm for some food, drinks, music and blessing by Abbot Neal.
grass and weeds - blank slate
tomatoes, potatoes, beans, peas, bok choi, sun flowers, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, currants, onions, carrots, new shed, worms, art and more!
from imagining the possibilities
to making it happen
and taking care of the garden
grass and weeds - blank slate
tomatoes, potatoes, beans, peas, bok choi, sun flowers, raspberries, blueberries, strawberries, currants, onions, carrots, new shed, worms, art and more!
from imagining the possibilities
to making it happen
and taking care of the garden
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