Category: Projects

Last Saturday, October 13th,  it was a cold and rainy day.  As a result, work on the garden was delayed until 12:00 pm.  In the end, a few dedicated volunteers  came to put the garden in order for next year’s season.  Some of the volunteers cleaned up the old beds, while others worked on building new beds. The boards had been cut to length, and were laid out out in advance; assembly moved quickly.  By the end of the two hours we had assembled the foundations for 4 new beds.

There will be one more work day on Oct. 27th to finish the work that has been started.

On September 8th Larry Potvin, Annah Boucher, Ken Boucher, & Stephen Greene worked to deliver three loads of compost to the garden site. The compost was donated by Diane and Nate Finney. It is excellent aged horse manure that we used with great success in this year’s school garden.

Summer is over and activities at the Seed Savers school garden have been gearing up. On September 7^th Stephen Greene went into the classroom to supervise the harvest of our potato crop with the 6^th, 7^th and 8^th graders. Students learned that potatoes are tubers, not roots, and we got to see first hand what this looked like when we dug up 65 lbs. of organic potatoes from two raised beds.

Students also harvested a substantial load of heirloom tomatoes that were delivered to the school cafeteria, where Cook Patty was thrilled to receive them, and used them in the salad bar this past week.