Lettuce Picking: July 20

13 families were the lucky ones who will be eating fresh cut lettuce today from the Hunger Free North Dakota Garden.  The students had lots of fun, and got a little muddy. We also discussed different types of vegetables, including tubers and root vegetables.  A tuber is a potato and an example of a root vegetable is a carrot, radish, or beat.   The tomatillos are looking good too!

Check out our garden at the Northern Plains Botanic Garden Society...http://npbgs.tripod.com/        (they have a beautiful site they are developing which includes the A-B-C Garden within the 52 acres)...Check out Mrs. B.'s letter "V" also when you visit the garden.  http://npbgs.tripod.com/otherplaces.htm   Look for our class site here. Our site is to what most know as Yunker Farm, though it's in the NPBG Society area.

Food Land and People: Teachers Tour Garden

Area teachers listen to the students talk about planting their garden, what they planted, and what was the most fun!  The Hunger Free ND Garden is within the 52 acres at the Northern Plains Botanical Society, which is across the bike path from Yunker Farm. (I specify the Children's Museum to give you a landmark that you might be aware of so that you too can come out and enjoy the gardens.)
Don't forget http://www.freerice.com/ . This will help all students to polish up your vocabulary, math, etc... and donate rice to those who are hungry!

How Much of The Earth Is Water

http://www.farmland.org/Flash/appleEarth.html

...and other important facts about the earth and farming!

Good Job Weeding Team

I don't have the video ready to go yet, but I wanted to thank the weeding team, students and parents from Monday night. They did a great job preparing the garden for the people who will be viewing it at the Garden Show on Wednesday! The garden is really looking nice, and growing well.

A special Thank You to August and his family for supplying the Wonderful treats for the evening! Chocolate cookies (I will be posting the recipe), watermelon, and water and Poweraide for all! We did study where chocolate cookies come from in class this last year. Check out the student ag blog to see the students findings. http://www.agkids.blogspot.com/   There are 3 student entries about cookies in the "March" section.   Anyway....This was a special treat and very much appreciated by all the hard workers.

If you're interested in the Tour of Gardens:
You can buy tickets for either one or two days.

Tour includes 8 outstanding area gardens each day.  Wednesday: north Fargo, Thursday, south Fargo
For years now, the local Soroptimists Club has staged an annual garden tour of Fargo's best and brightest gardens.

http://www.areavoices.com/relucgarden/?page=listing&tag=Soroptimist%20Garden%20Tour