Aliso garden

Tomatoes and basil in December what a beautiful micro-climate our Aliso campus has.

Smiles included

Bees wax candle

The K2 students rolled these holiday gifts.

Tomatoes

The upside to having to tear out your tomatoes

A weekend with a frost.

The second graders helped remove our last warm season plants after this weekends frost.

Last Friday

A couple of the students from the Aliso campus discover the wonders of grub life.

Winter beauty

Some of the third graders at Manzanita show us why succulents are amazing Winter plants.

Fall colors

This is one of our blueberries with it's Fall coat on.

This week in the garden

This is our beloved pomegranate tree in its Fall colors.

Eating "Bugs"

Students build "bugs" from edibles picked at the Anneliese Schools' Willowbrook Campus garden during the "Daddy & Me: Bug Detectives" class.

Observing Insects

While hunting for bugs during the SEEDS "Daddy & Me: Bug Detectives Class," students recorded what they found and drew pictures of what they saw.

Finding Bugs in the Garden

Finding bugs in the garden at Anneliese's Willowbrook Campus during the "Daddy & Me: Bug Detectives" class.

Books and paper class, woodblocks

Farm kitchen cooking

Lacto-fermented green beans- all from the garden, garlic basil and dill.

Farm kitchen cooking

Heirloom beans, red russian kale, and a beat.

The average trash truck holds 8 tons of trash and dumps several loads a day

Garbology class observing the working face of the bowerman landfill

Team North: The Super Sailors

Team South: Empire State Building

Team East: The Get Across

Team West: Trash Sculpture, Chandelier madness

The magnolia tree gives generous gifts.

Frau Marlene's show their beet tongues.

This squash is so big!

All hail the swiss chard!

Beets make great facepaint!

Beet mouths with frau kirsten's preschool

Judy needed fourth helpings

Jordan loves swiss chard

Harvesting spinach seeds

Lunchtime compost bucket

Maya braves the nettles

Lovely lizard Mason!

Ms Polina's class with borcsht vegetables harvested

The harvest is heavy when you're 4!

Borscht with Ms Polina. Happy Summer Solstice

Polyphemus moth amd calendula salve

Sweet and savory red cabbage

Red cabbage and sauted up with apples, olive oil, salt and pepper. Caraway, balsamic, raisins and walnuts are also good.

Third grade at willowbrook in the garden

Last day in the garden for third grade

Heard in the serving line:  "hey! She's getting thirds and I haven' t had seconds."

Ms Brie's Last Class

Potatoes in the pot, Ms Brie's 4 th graders get beans, greens, including nettles, cauliflower, onions and spices ready for a stew. Ingredients not produced by the garden: salt, pepper, olive oil and water.

Greens for the stew

Hooray for mulch!

Mulching is fun.

Thanks to Earth for the squash, thanks to Maestra Veronica's class for the itchy-armed harvest.

Early squash harvest

Art in the Garden

Students' art decorates our tomato cages in the Willowbrook campus
garden.