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Garlic Harvest and Sprouting Seeds at Brock! Today at Brock, we harvested some garlic. Just like at Ecole Bilingue, some of the kids needed to play tug-o-rope with their garlic before it finally agreed to come out of the dirt. Some of the heads were huge! Take a look... Garlic right out of the ground... And all cleaned up! One head of garlic accidentally got speared by a trowel. I tasted it and it was already super garlicky! That garlic is going to be so strong when it’s cured. It’ll probably cure colds on contact. Some of the seeds that the kids planted are already sprouting! There were already little carrots, beets, and beans sticking their heads out. The kids were ecstatic to see that something they planted was actually growing. They even started calling themselves farmers! This is why I love this job. - Razan
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Grenfell potatoes! We harvested 115 yellow, red, and fingerling potatoes from Grenfell last Tuesday from only a few plants! It's amazing how abundant nature can be even in a small school garden.   - Razan
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Garlic and Potato Harvest! Although the weather wasn’t the greatest, some kids and parents braved that looming rain clouds and came out to attend the garlic and potato harvest at one of our schools! First, we harvested the potatoes. It was like a treasure hunt for the kids. The kids and parents dug the soil a foot and a half deep in order to harvest the deepest and largest potatoes. The kids had a great time getting their hands dirty, and got excited when they found even the tiniest (bread crumb sized!) potatoes. We harvested 25 pounds of potatoes from just one container! Dig, dig, dig! Pull out the crop! Let's find some more!  The harvest! (25 pounds!) And finally, the triumph of finding the biggest potato! Next, we harvested the garlic. The kids dug around the garlic, and then pulled it up from the bottom of the stem. I forgot to specify that we should only pull out garlic plants, so we had a few sunflowers pulled out as well. Whoops! I
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SPEC Receives Coveted Golden Shovel Award! At the Thunderbird Elementary's end of year Harvest Festival, SPEC was awarded a Golden Shovel Award for the creation of the school's very own garden. This is Thunderbird School's first year in our school gardens program, but the garden has already inspired a wonderful and passionate community of teachers, students and parents who care for it. SPEC has now created seven school gardens across Vancouver which teach children how to grow their own fresh, organic veggies!