[TNS-list] Garden Help Needed!

[PTA Parent Engagement]

A message from Karen Oh regarding the garden:


Garden Summer Help Needed :)
Yes! We still have a garden!
We have been managing the garden (from afar and socially distanced). It's
important to us that when we do finally return to school, that we have the
garden in place, that it has been cared for and it is growing. It may seem
minor, but it is important for youth to have green, living, growing and the
earth in their lives. It is connected to our health and our selves. It
teaches us self-sustainability, is calming and organic yet structured.
Nature (as we know) is relentless, resilient and resistant.
As we slowly reopen and move back to being in public again, our need for
volunteers to help keep the garden alive and watered over the summer has
arrived!
We are looking for volunteers to check on the garden, water, and harvest
over the summer. If you are free for 45 minutes to one hour once a week and
want to help, please reply to me, Karen,

thirdstreetschoolgarden at gmail.com

Volunteers have told me that caring for the garden  is a calming and
rewarding experience and a way to get outside and see things grow.
Unfortunately, because of Covid-19, we will need volunteers to maintain
social distance, work solo, and not bring kids or other people since the
school serves as a meal site and there is food traffic. Once we get a
schedule together, I'll arrange an online meeting so that we can orient
people. No experience is necessary and is welcome! I encourage BIPOC to
help out if they can or are interested!

What We've Been Up To:
Freddy Pena (TNS parent of a 3rd grader) has stepped up and provided a
tremendous amount of work. He and I have been trying to meet once every two
weeks (from 6' away) to coordinate and get things repaired, planted, etc.
While we miss having the students grow our plants in the classroom, we are
still able to plant from seed and seedlings that we have. In addition to
planting flowers--sunflowers, zinnia, cosmos, etc. and our perennials that
come back year to year (snapdragons, honeysuckle, tulips, daffodils,
hyssop), vegetables like peppers, tomatoes, chard, and beets, cukes,
broccoli, etc. we have planted historically and culturally relevant plants
such as cotton, the three sisters (gem glass corn, squash and pole beans),
pigeon peas, plate de haiti tomato (one of the earliest tomatos also called
manzana de hispanola), etc. We also planted the radish and carrot seed
tapes that kids made in Emily's science class.
Click here to see recent photos of the garden:
https://photos.app.goo.gl/5WBmKMhrfT2pyBi49
Thank you all!
Karen and Freddy
-- 
Parent Engagement Liaison
The Neighborhood School PTA
-------------- next part --------------
An HTML attachment was scrubbed...
URL: <http://lists.theneighborhoodschool.org/pipermail/tns-list-theneighborhoodschool.org/attachments/20200622/e5286ff5/attachment.html>