CJASP Farmers' Market

As a part of the CJA Summer Program, the rising sixth grade sold produce from our garden at the summer family potluck at Moore Park.

Lorne and Robert harvest swiss chard.

Lorne marvels at his carrot harvest.

Robert and Lorne with carrots.

Andre harvesting beans.

Andre carrying the harvest.

The harvest crew.

Setting up before the potluck.

Shopping around

A satisfied customer

Perusing the selection

CJASP Agriculture

This summer, all rising sixth graders in the Chicago Jesuit Academy Summer Program are taking part in an Agricultural Science class.  Students practice collecting data, making scientific observations, making and interpreting graphs, and making and testing hypotheses in the setting of CJA's garden.  Here are some pictures from the program.

A group of CJA alumni organizes sixth graders in doing the daily chores.

Andre and Keshaun head toward the chicken coop.

Daisy stops by to say hello on her way into the coop.

Coco taking a break from the heat in her coop.

Keonnie and Marquis record observations of a freshly planted bed.

Tovaris records data on plants.

Kevin and Jaurice prepare to water the plants.

Watering swiss chard

Clearing a row of carrots of weeds

Ms. Schenkel leads her group.

Malachi records data.

Garden Update

Lots of exciting things are happening in the garden!

Zinnia are in bloom.  There are sweet potato vines interplanted with them.

Wheat is ripening.

Peas are ready for harvest.

Ornamental pots with grasses, lavender, alyssum, and Creeping Jenny are looking great.

Students return to CJA for summer programming on Monday the 24th!

Harvesting Strawberries and Radishes

Javion and Milaun stopped by CJA, even though they're on summer vacation, to water the garden, and harvest some crops.

This year's crop of strawberries is looking great!

Javion shows off white and red radishes he harvested.

Milaun is excited to share his harvest with his family.

YUM!

CJA's garden soil is Unique

We have all kinds of soil at CJA. We have unfinished composed, which is soil that is not soil yet but is going to be one day.  

We also have soil that's in our chicken coop which is good for our compost. 

 Also, we have compost that's done decomposing and we use that for planting in our garden.  These are tools that give us our garden soil and also to help us plant in the spring and fall.

Transplanting Eggplant, by Casimir, grade 6

This is an eggplant, which is the plant I transplanted in the CJA garden.  We did this so people can eat healthier today, but you can only get our eggplants at CJA's great farmers' market on certain days.

We first got water and tools so we could plant.  Then we dug holes with trowels.  After that we pulled out the soil and seedling from the pot and finally we planted it.

A good recipe for eggplant is a salad.  First, cut up eggplant, lettuce, greens, and tomatoes, and make a great salad.

Transplanting Tomatoes, by Jaquel, grade 6

This is a tomato plant.  Today we transplanted the plants that Mr. Dwyer assigned us.  We did that so that the plants can be ready for summer.  You can use tomatoes in salads, hamburgers, and tomato soup.  One tasty recipe is spaghetti and meat balls:

1. Get a pot of boiling water

2. Put your noodles in there

3. Let it sit for five minutes

4. Drain it

5. Add the spaghetti sauce

6. Get some ground beef and fry it in a pan

7. Mix it all together and add spices

8. Enjoy