Winter gardens

It’s thirty degrees and sleeting outside and the gardening work continues at Gordon.
 

Fifth and sixth graders in Garden Stewards explored the contents of a fully established worm bin today.
 

Each group then got to create their own “worm lab” that they will monitor and feed over the next couple of months.
 

The worm castings created in these bins will be used to grow garlic, carrots, onions, peas, beans, lettuce, spinach, potatoes, mint, cucumbers, tomatoes, basil, parsley, sunflowers, corn, summer squash, chard, beets, radishes, kale, chives, cilantro, cherries, pumpkins, apples, elderberries and paw paw in Gordon’s community gardens this spring and summer.
 

Meanwhile, students got a mini-harvest of their own, taste testing microgreens they’ve cultivated inside the classrooms.

 

Worm composting has long been a pillar of the Young Kindergarten classroom, and it’s been spreading through the school through the advocacy of Green Dean Cush Gillen. Gillen is taking things one step further with a Worm Lab Workshop next Monday, open to any of his Gordon colleagues who are interested in bringing worms into their classrooms.

More worm news from 2019 and 2022 and again in 2022 and 2023 and again in 2023