Guest Instructor Teaches on Soil

Julie Galbraith came and gave us a lesson on soil. Julie has a half acre organic orchard and garden in her backyard and is a hobby beekeeper. She worked with a school gardens program and a 4-H club in the Peace Corps in Africa. She brought samples of soil and placed them in jars, put water in the jars, and shook them up to see how the soil settled in the jars.

SDSU films the Garden

Student from the Human Rights class at SDSU came out to the garden to film us for TGO.TV.
They asked us questions about how we came here to the U.S. and how the garden program started.
They also donated seeds, tools, and goody bags to us. They were fun to be around because of their energy.

Here are the links to some of the videos they made so far:

Miss Kaley talks about the garden.

Student Managers talk about their work.

Mission Hills Garden Club event

We presented the Crawford garden to the Mission Hills Garden Club last Wednesday night. We spoke to over 50 people. We also showed them how to make some seed balls that they got to keep and take  home.We want to thank them for giving us money for us to keep our program going. It was fun teaching people new things and sharing our greetings from home.

First Harvest of Spring

Interns washed carrots, chard, kale, kholarabi, cabbage, beets, radish, spinach, and sold them to ten teachers.
We made $115 in donations! The produce was fresh from the garden and looked very colorful in the boxes.
We had never harvested that much before.

 

Pedro hands a box of veggies to a Crawford teacher.

Madina harvests fresh greens for the CSA boxes.