Learning Gardens
Worm Activity
A worm bin was created at Northeast Elementary this morning. This is what happened. We started with the worm bin made at Healthy Waltham. The students looked at this worms and held them learning more about how nice they are. Then it was the time to make our own worm …
article posted on January 12, 2012
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Worm Party
Worms are now at Healthy Waltham. We started a worm bin and it is filled with worms. The bedding is filled with newspaper and the food they eat is all vegetable scraps. The reason for vegetable scraps is because anything else will invite fruit flies, but not that worms eat …
article posted on October 27, 2011
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A Wonderful Start to Fall
Stanley Elementary’s garden club has been having a really wild time gardening and looking for nice food to eat. So far this season we have harvested pumpkins, tomatoes, eggplants, cucumbers, mint, husk cherries, and oxalis. This week marked the time for tomatoes existing in the garden this season has ended. …
article posted on October 26, 2011
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Digging in @ Chesterbrook
Last Thursday marked the beginning of a new vegetable garden at Chesterbrook Housing Community in Waltham. With six cubic yards of compost dumped, the kids and HW staff got digging as we shuttled wheelbarrows of the rich, black soil over to the garden’s new location. From an eyeball-estimate, it seemed …
article posted on June 14, 2011
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What have we been up to this spring?
The past several weeks have been a very busy time for Healthy Waltham. With the weather continuing to warm up and seeds and seedlings (started indoors in February, March, and April) needing planting and care, we’ve been doing a lot more than usual, but were snapping photos along the way. …
article posted on June 9, 2011
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Carrots ‘n Swiss Chard @ Stanley Garden Club
After realizing the difficulty of freehand-seeding carrots in the garden, Cece and I decided that there had to be an easier way to plant carrots in nice, evenly-spaced rows. If you’re not familiar with these seeds, they are about the same size of a sesame seed, maybe even a little …
article posted on April 17, 2011
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Planting Peas @ Northeast Elementary
Last Thursday at Northeast Elementary, Healthy Waltham invited the entire first-grade class to help us plant hundreds of snap peas in the school’s expanding garden space. We were first assisted by Ms. Lockwood’s forth and fifth-grade class in preparing one of the garden beds for the planting. Kids dug in …
article posted on April 14, 2011
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Lettuce, Tomatoes, and Worms @ Stanley Garden Club
Last week at Stanley Garden Club students exercised their patience as we checked for signs of new growth in our planted beds. After not discovering any green sprouts sticking out of the soil, we talked about why the seeds might be taking a little longer to germinate than expected. Students …
article posted on April 8, 2011
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Garden Lessons @ McDevitt Middle School
Radishes germinating Sixth-grade students in Ms. Turkington and Mr. Maillis’ math Cluster Challenges have been active participants in preparing the school’s garden space for the warmer days ahead of us. In the classroom, students helped by starting seed trays with greens such as arugula, a few varieties of red-leaf lettuces, …
article posted on April 7, 2011
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Learning the Parts of a Plant
Getting our hands dirty Cold winds and a recent snow shower didn’t deter Stanley Garden Club from meeting last week and getting even more seeds planted, though the chilly temperature did keep us indoors. We got our hands dirty as we added some water to the dried up potting soil, …
article posted on March 30, 2011
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