Summer Program Week 1

The rising 6th grade is back for summer school.  They are learning about healthy bodies and healthy food systems while working in the garden.  Here are some of their first thoughts and pictures.


"What we must do to care for the chickens is feed them good and healthy food, have them live in a clean and safe environment, and clean water.  What we must do to care for the compost is water it and put wood chips in it so that it turns into soil and not bad food.  What we must do to care for the garden is water it four times a week and don't water it too much.  Also we need to check on it daily and give it good soil to grow in."
--Jamari B.


"What we must do to care about eh chickens is we should feed them the right food. We can also make sure they get fed every day.  What we do to help the garden is pull out the bad things next to it immediately.  We should also put the right soil in it.  You should also water it every day and make sure it has enough water and put enough soil in the plans.  What we must do to help the compost is we should put the right insects in it so we can have great soil.  We should also put things like fruit pits or old fruit in it also.  If we do that we will all be happy."
--Isaiah

Here is Mr. Jones pouring some strawberries and cantaloupe into our compost bins.

Here is Mr. Peyton helping us pull out all the weeds in the garden.  The weeds will feed the chickens.

Here, Mr. White is watering the strawberries in the garden. 

Mr. Thomas looks on in amazement at the eggs he found in the coop.

The compost bins must be watered daily in order for the compost to work.

Mr. Brooks and Mr. Wilson learn first hand what it is like in a chicken coop.