The Central School Garden Committee found out a week ago that due to construction of baseball fields for the new High School, our garden needed to be removed. We’ve spent the past week harvesting what we could, transplanting plants that could be moved, and removing all our equipment. There doesn’t seem to be a suitable site for us anymore at the Central School (the school is losing a lot of its green space to the High School). It has been hard to destroy a garden that took five years to build, but we hope to start a new garden in a new location next year. The wonderful thing about gardens is that if you don’t succeed one year, there’s always next season to dream about. The CSG Committee would like to thank everyone who has supported us over the past five years: our eager members, our patient parents, our hardworking volunteers, and our generous donors. We hope to be starting a new garden (perhaps at the Middle School, perhaps at Sachem Rock Farm) in the Fall of 2014, most likely geared towards Middle School students. We will need help to do it! Stay tuned for how you can help us create an even more beautiful, productive, and inspiring garden!
Some pictures from our last meeting at the Central School:
Here are some members with their new creation: “Ecoshakes.” Ecoshakes are made with organic (and edible!) ingredients from the Central School Garden! Ummm, yummy! (These pictures are from our July 7th meeting.)
Here are some lovely pictures from our July 1st meeting. Our peas, carrots and lettuce came in nicely!
Our Teasel was quite spectacular! Notice the little cups the leaves make where they grow out of the stem: butterflies and other pollinators love getting a drink in these mini-pools.
That’s all for now: Thanks Everyone!
Reading this email made me cry…. Though my children didn’t take part this year… It breaks my heart to know that such a great program maybe put to rest. I just loved to know that children were learning where some of their food came from and how to grow their own .
What an amazing job you did creating this gardening club.
I hope that you will be able to find the perfect piece of land in the near future.
Keep up the wonderful work and please never give up.