SPEC School Gardens Program

Queen Elizabeth (QE) Elementary is our largest school garden! There are many many many plants blooming and growing in this garden! Let's take a photo tour of this lovely garden! Look at that long stretch of kinder-garden! Here is a mix of beautiful French marigolds, speckled lettuce and baby kale. That summer squash is sure growing larger and larger each day.   Corn be warn! They sure grow mighty fast and tall!     Fruits of Success:   Last week Nikoo and I harvested about 100lbs of Red Liberty apples! Look at dem apples! Tis the season for Concord grapes! Do I see some grape vines?! Plum de lum, they are ripening fast!   Who's that picking in the fruit orchard????....   And who can forget to harvest some fresh raspberries, blueberries and strawberries! Yummy in my tummy!   Our amazingly talented volunteer Wing Wu, who painted our Mandarin translation sign!     Harvests:...

Our feature "Garden of the Week" is L'Ecole Bilingue which is our only French immersion school part of this program. On July 14th, we had an amazing harvest of many many many (and can I add another 1000 manys) POTATOES!!!!!!!!!!!!! They are by far the largest potatoes I have seen in any of the school gardens. Look at all them potatoes!   Some hard pulling and tugging! Use them muscles! Enjoying some delicious peas after some hard digging! Yum Yum! Look at these peas in a pod! Some More Magical Hands at Work: Can you feel the excitement of fall planting?! The sound of opening seed packages and the feel of soil between your fingers...  Away we go with planting! Look at these pumpkin seeds! Look at them magical hands! Keep on digging away for those pumpkin seeds!   They grew in 2 days! The power of magical hands!     Garden Pictures    WOW! Look at how tall ...

What's happening at Brock Junction Daycare around 4 O'clock??! - Gardening Time! Our feature "Garden of the Week" is Brock Elementary maintained by the staff and kids at Brock Junction Daycare. These kids certainly have "magical hands or the green thumb!" Too many bunnies in the garden! :P   The kids and I making a promise card to water the garden. These kids are truly amazing gardeners!     Let's meet some of our little garden helpers... Isla watering the garden!   Tristan watering the sunflowers!    Ava watering her cucumbers. They grew in two days!!! Christina watering her cucumbers, zucchinis and tomatoes! Way to go girl!   Andrew watering some Lacinato kale. Can I hear a KALE YEAH ?!   Tristan lending a helping hand filling up Andrew's watering can.     Magical Hands at Work!      Christina and Tristan planting some bush beans!     Loo...