SPEC School Gardens Program

On Monday, the kids from the Brock Junction daycare and I harvested a bunch of scarlet runner beans and bush beans for their snack. And boy, did they love them! The next day, a bunch of the kids came running up to me and asked if they could pick some more of the 'magic beans' to eat. Later, two of the girls asked if they could plant some bush beans in an empty section of one of the plots. I let them go ahead, but then later realized that they used up almost a whole package of seeds. There will likely be a forest of bush beans beginning to grow in the next few days. I'm sure the kids at Brock will be happy about this. Collecting bush beans at Brock Elementary  Planting more delicious beans! Spraying a homemade solution to kill powdery mildew 

In order to make room for new plants at Thunderbird, the kids and I harvested a bunch of arugula from one of the plots. At that point, it was still fairly small. I figured it was the perfect opportunity to make arugula pesto for the first time! To add more volume (and flavour) to the pesto, I also collected some carrot greens which would've been composted. Carrot greens are edible, and have a mild flavour; you will hardly notice a handful blended in to the pesto. Harvesting arugula at Thunderbird