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Friday, June 26, 2015
Crestwood's Garden Summer Camp
This summer, Crestwood Elementary is piloting a summer program designed to teach students about Permaculture design, gardening, art, cooking, and nutrition. They are working with scientists, teachers, and permaculture gardeners with a three week curriculum. This curriculum will be available free of charge to other Nevada schools so that they can use it when designing their own summer programs.
The students participating are exploring topics from:
hands on science learning
art projects
Permaculture
responsible living
nutrition exploration
With the help of groups like Green our Planet, Garden Farms, The American Heart Association, and lots of enthusiastic parents, teachers and community partners like Star Nursery, this summer camp is thriving.
The students are beaming and can't wait to give us a tour of the garden.
Our host and tour guide, Luisa, will be starting the 4th grade after this Summer.
She stops at every garden bed to tell us what's growing in them.
Lavender, tomatoes, marigolds, pumpkins are all just a few of the overflowing garden varieties that Luisa recalls by name just by looking at the plants.
She explains that they created the outdoor classroom bench out of mud and then painted it to look like a very long caterpillar. That caterpillar is where students sit and take notes under a large mulberry tree while the teacher writes on an outdoor white board.
After the tour we followed Luisa back into the classroom where a fresh from the garden lunch was well on it's way to being prepared. Students circled a table where a local chef was delegating food prep tasks to each of the children.
There's a definite excitement in the air to taste what they've been growing.
Thanks for inviting us Crestwood! We're happy to help!
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Wednesday, June 24, 2015
A Worm's World - Club Read
We've partnered with the Clark County Library District to sponsor a summer reading program that's all about Worms!
Kids will learn what worms can do for the garden soil and for our plants!
They will also get to make their very own Wiggling Worm bookmark to keep them company through their Summer reads!
Visit Club Read to find out what's going on and see if A Worm's World
is coming to a library near you!
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is coming to a library near you!
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Monday, June 22, 2015
Summer Zucchini Salad
It's finally salad season!
And if your garden is overflowing with sweet sweet summer veggie goodness, then you'll appreciate a creative way to get those beauties from the garden into your belly.
It's only natural for us to crave fresh and light meals when the temperatures rise.
Vegetables and fruits are made up of mostly water. As the heat turns up, our bodies are in desperate need of additional hydration.
Enter the hydrating, but not too filling, salad.
Summer Zucchini Salad
1 cup cooked quinoa
1/2 dices zucchini
1/2 dices zucchini
1 diced tomato
1/4 diced red onion
Generous handful fresh dill chopped
1/2 red bell pepper
1/2 cup vinaigrette dressing of your choice
pinch of salt
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
Cook the quinoa according to package directions.
Dice all the veggies to the desired size.
Toss everything with the vinaigrette of your choice (We used Brianna's Home Style Real French Vinaigrette) and sprinkle with Parmesan cheese.
How convenient that most of these ingredients are in season at the same time!
Thank you Summer!
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