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| Building a garden on a slab of red clay! |
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BUILDING
THE 21ST CENTURY KID'S GARDEN! There are 100 after school kids from Woodland Heights
Elementary School who are building the garden. All we have to work is a slab of red clay. Wonderful people in our community
donated the materials and we thank those of you who have donated your time especially Steve Patton who I have worked
with for a long time. He is such a good teacher and friend to children - a positive and gentle person. He
is aware of their safety and has contributed valuable time to the program. The kids love it!!! They have been so interested
and worked so hard. We and the garden are off to a great start! Thank you to Steve Patton for helping us build the beds
and the teepee too - and to all our partners who made it happen! There are great
opportunities and a broad curriculum that one can teach and experience outdoors and the exercise and health benefits are right
there. I challenge you to get on the train to helping kids grow healthy and inspiring discovery. Freedom comes with self-control,
caring, sharing, and kindness and these grow in the garden. I am glad to be able to share with
you - pictures, stories and memories as it happened! Walk that Green Shoes walk!
| Summer begins as harvest approaches. |
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| Children made signs in English and Spanish |
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| Smelling the herbs in the garden |
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| Measuring and marking beds and digging the soil |
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| Measuring and marking lumber for raised beds |
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| Drilling a joint and placing pin |
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| Building the potato mound |
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| Daquarius putting the tools away |
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| Digging beds, adding newspaper, leaves, and soil |
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| Planting onions and thinning the greens |
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| Digging trench to build bamboo teepee for beans |
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| Mr. Steve helping us tie the poles |
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| Lining up the poles for the teepee |
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| Ms. Susan and kids checking plants |
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| Weather station -windsock, thermometer, rain gauge |
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| Kids neatly put straw in Teepee! |
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| Digging the holes for the sign |
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