Transcript Eagle*s Outlook Garden Overview

Welcome to Eagle’s Outlook Garden!
• Did you know SEES has lemon trees, tomatoes, and a
butterfly garden?
• Eagle’s Outlook is our school garden behind the library.
• Your class will spend a week in the garden:
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planting
harvesting
maintaining (weeding, etc.)
composting
• Your class will work in 4 groups. Each group will do one
of these tasks each day.
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Garden Zones
Butterfly
Zone
You will work in different zones in the garden
Vegetable
Zone
Pumpkin Zone
Eagle
Zone
Fruit Tree
Zone
Gate
LIBRARY
Compost
Zone
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Eagle’s Outlook Garden Rules
1. All students must be accompanied by an adult.
2. Ask before picking any fruits or vegetables.
3. Respect plants and animals in the garden.
4. When done, put away all tools and materials and clean up trash.
5. Wash your hands after gardening.
6. Have FUN!
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A special note: Snakes in the Garden
 Sometimes snakes visit our school garden
 Some snakes, like rattlesnakes,
can be dangerous.
 If you see a snake:
STOP, BACK AWAY, and TELL the
nearest ADULT immediately!
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What are we doing in the garden?
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Composting
– Recycles vegetables/fruit, paper, and leaves. Scraps “cook” in the composter and break
down, so they become usable nutrients
– Student Role: Gather dead plants, salad bar waste and paper; put items in compost bin
Planting
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Starts new life in garden
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Students Role: Dig a hole, plant seeds, water
Maintaining
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Plants grow with air, water, sunlight; and nutrients from the soil, help improve these
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Student Role: Weeding, watering, fertilizing, or preparing for planting
Harvesting
– Garden to table to mouth!
– Student Role: Pick!
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Backup
• Backup- The following are detailed slides but
aren’t necessary for the garden overview in
the class
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What are we doing in the garden?
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Composting
– Recycles old vegetable/fruit food scraps, paper, and leaves to return the nutrients to the
garden. Food scraps “cook” in the composter and break down, so they become usable
nutrients for plants
– Student role: Gather dead plants from garden, get cafeteria salad bar waste, collect class
paper, put items in compost bin
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Planting
– Starts new life in the garden to enable continued growth and future harvesting
– Student role: Dig a hole, plant seeds, water
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Maintaining
– Cares for a garden after planting for a healthy garden and successful harvest. Plants need
water, air, nutrients, and sunlight to grow; different garden activities help plants best get
these. Also, weeds take nutrients away from our plants so we need to remove them
– Student Role: Weeding, watering, fertilizing, or preparing for planting
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Harvesting
– Results of taking care of a garden. How produce gets from the garden to our table
– Student Role: Pick a fruit/vegetable from the garden, taste it
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Planting, Harvesting, Maintaining, Composting
(Tools: gloves, seeds, spray bottle, plastic spoon, ruler)
1. Find Lettuce seeds in a container in the shed.
2. Each student will dig a ¼ inch deep hole and spaced 1 inch
apart from the next student’s hole, in each hole sprinkle in
~10 seeds, and cover with soil.
3. Spray with 3 sprays from water bottle.
4. Return your supplies to the shed and wash hands.
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Planting,
Harvesting, Maintaining, Composting
1. Your teacher/garden docent will tell you what to
pick. Each student may pick one tomato or other
produce from the garden.
2. Pull the tomato gently from the vine so the branch
doesn’t break.
3. Your teacher will let you know if you should eat it,
save it for a class recipe, or take it home!
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Planting, Harvesting,
Maintaining, Composting
Maintaining the garden involves pulling weeds, fertilizing,
watering, and preparing the soil for planting.
Weeding (Tools: gloves and shovels, yard waste bags)
1. Study pictures of weeds and go to proper zone to weed.
2. Pull weeds at spot closest to ground. You want to try to get
the whole root so the weed doesn’t grow back.
3. Pull at least 10 weeds and throw them away in the paper
yard waste bags.
4. When done put supplies away and wash hands.
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Planting, Harvesting,
Maintaining, Composting
Watering (Tools: watering cans and hose)
1. Your teacher or garden docent will tell you in what zone to
water.
2. Each student should fill a watering can once with water from
the hose.
3. Each student should water the plants in the zone gently.
4. Put away watering cans, turn off hose and wash hands.
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Planting, Harvesting,
Maintaining, Composting
Fertilizing (Tools: gloves, fertilizer, paper cups, spray bottles)
1. Bring supplies to proper zone.
2. Each student takes a ½ cupful of fertilizer and sprinkles it
around the plants labeled with your group’s popsicle sticks.
3. Spray the area 10 times with water.
4. Wash hands and put supplies away.
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Planting, Harvesting,
Maintaining, Composting
Preparing for Planting (Tools: gloves, shovels, pitch forks, bag of
compost, ruler)
1. Your teacher or garden docent will tell you what plants to
remove.
2. Each student should remove at least one plant, making sure
to pull out roots too (use shovels and pitch forks as needed).
3. Students should bring their plants to the compost pile for
breaking up.
4. Spread enough compost from bag to cover area 4 in high
and mix in with shovels and pitch forks.
5. Put supplies away and wash hands.
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Composting
Composting is a way to recycle old vegetable/fruit food scraps and leaves to return
nutrients to the garden. The food scraps need to “cook” in the composter so they will
break down and be usable by the plants when we spread the “compost” in the garden.
Your group will find the empty orange compost bucket and lid in the shed and take it
to the cafeteria.
See the compost spot against the cafeteria wall between and the peanut-free picnic
tables. Leave the empty bucket and take the full orange bucket with salad bar food
scraps back to the school garden.
Empty the bucket into the composter.
You should also add dried plants and leaves from the “brown stuff” compost pile and
shredded paper and paper towels from class. You want to add equal parts salad bar
waste “green stuff” and dried dead plants “brown stuff”.
Do not add weeds, meat, dairy, or other food products, plastic, or other trash.
Each student should turn the composter three times
Bring the now empty bucket to the shed.
Wash hands.
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