Welcome to 2010!

If we have one resolution at the garden this year, it is to expand student participation. Over the break, while tomatoes proliferated and banana trees grew to new heights, we planned for a student takeover of the garden. Starting this month, an afterschool gardening class will be offered at SPE for kids from grades K-6th. Jamee Garland - a teacher, green activist and environmentalist - will lead the classes with appearances by guest lecturers. We would also like to welcome our new garden caretakers: the students in Ms. Hendrickson’s, Mr. Bogart’s, Mr. Londoño’s and Ms. Brisuela’s classrooms and Ms. Arsenault’s Save the Planet club. The classes and afterschool clubs will each inherit half a garden bed to cultivate. At the garden we are happy to turn over many new leaves in 2010! Watch us grow.