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Preserving Fresh Herbs
Learn four methods to preserve fresh herbs: Air Drying, Powders, Freezing, Extracts, and Oxymels Herbal Properties ● Rosemary -- energy,...
May 8, 2020


Freeze Your Own Fresh Veggies
(Español) (Chinese) (Korean) Frozen vegetables not only are convenient, but they are also budget-friendly and can taste as good as...
May 8, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 5/8
This week in the Teaching Garden we continued to plant out our garden beds, and did lots of weeding. We planted potatoes (stay tuned for...
May 8, 2020


DIY Newspaper Planting Pots
These easy-to-make pots are perfect for starting seeds. Once your seedlings are strong enough to be transplanted outside in the garden,...
May 6, 2020


Grow a Garden From Fruit Seeds
Translations: (Spanish) (Chinese) (Korean) (English) Before your favorite fruit makes its way from the farm where it was grown to a...
May 6, 2020


Natural Dyes: Play with Pigments
Watercolors, Facepaint, Tie-Dye, and More! Have you ever cooked with beets to find that your fingertips and cutting board are stained a...
May 6, 2020


Saving Pepper Seeds
(En español) (French) (Simplified Chinese) (Traditional Chinese) (English pdf) Step One: Remove seeds from the pepper. Toss any that...
May 6, 2020


Build Your Own Tiny Greenhouse
(En español) (Simplified Chinese) (French) A greenhouse is defined as an enclosed space that is heated and lit by the sun. Short-wave...
May 6, 2020


Grow Your Own Berries
Who doesn’t love a fresh ripe berry, picked right off of the plant? If you’ve never tried it, you might be surprised what you can grow on...
May 6, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 5/1
Here are a few updates from this week in the Teaching Garden! Our apple tree (that began blossoming last week) is in full bloom! It looks...
May 1, 2020


Pollinators
Growing for Pollinators A garden isn’t only about growing vegetables and fruits. Flowers, trees, and grasses are also important parts of...
Apr 29, 2020


Grow Microgreens on Your Windowsill
(Spanish) (French) (Simplified Chinese) (Traditional Chinese) (Korean) (Russian) Microgreens are an easy, nutritious way to grow...
Apr 27, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 4/24
We have been keeping very busy in the Teaching Garden getting everything ready and planting out our first crops of the season. Here are a...
Apr 24, 2020


Sesame
This year one of the new things we are trying to grow in the Teaching Garden is Sesame! Here are our sesame seedlings, which we started...
Apr 22, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 4/17
We have been keeping busy in the teaching garden, prepping beds and planting them out! Here are a few updates from this week. To prep...
Apr 17, 2020


Thinning Seedlings
Thinning simply means removing some plants so that the remaining plants have enough space to grow. In the photo above you will notice...
Apr 17, 2020


Direct Seeding
Direct seeding or direct sowing means planting seeds into prepared garden beds outdoors. At the Teaching Garden, we have a cold winter...
Apr 15, 2020


Recycling Challenge
Looking for a fun and educational activity to keep your kids busy for a few hours? Challenge them to an up-cycling competition! By using...
Apr 13, 2020


Grow an Avocado plant from an Avocado pit!
Did you know the pit of an avocado is a seed? Seeds have three main components, an embryo, endosperm, and seed coat. The embryo of the...
Apr 10, 2020


Teaching Garden Update 4/9
Another week has passed and we have a few more updates from the Teaching Garden! First, we have a variety of plant starts growing indoors...
Apr 9, 2020
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