Incredible Edibles
Urban gardening in the heart of our campus
Who are we?
We are Incredible Edibles! Two middle school and one High School college service teams who meet on Mondays, Wednesdays and Thursdaya after school to tend the gardens at school and grow things to eat.
The Monday team
The Wednesday team
The Thursday team
Here are some stories from our blog
Garden herbs used on Pi Day
Great to see our herbs being used more in Sodexo events! Check out the mint, lemon balm and basil used in the pie day recipes!
Cleaning Up and Replanting
This week with our new group of Incredible Edible-ers we decided the aeroponic needed a big cleanout. The students worked together to empty it and got their hand's dirty scrubbing the debris.
Death by root rot – Learning from the aeroponics
Caring for sick plants! Learning about the symptoms, problems and solutions to root rot.
3 weeks of aeroponic growth : Update
About three weeks ago our aeroponic tower was installed with small shoots of veggies such as Pak Choy, Thai basil and even eggplant! Three weeks on and it's just about overgrown. The rate at which these vegetables are growing is faster than we've ever seen on campus,...
Happy plants
Thanks to the person who added a smile to our aubergine plant in the hydroponics tower last week. Spreading joy through nature!
I never knew!
Tenisha 9AFi During Incredible edible I learned about the composting process in our school as I took part in it one session, before this service I never knew how our school discarded excess leaves or plant based waste. Another thing I learnt was about weeding and how...
Pure outdoors
Hanseol Kang (9FYA) I had some enjoyable moments such as cutting down trees, watering plants and much more. Well, now I know how to distinguish weeds from plants, some amazing techniques to cut down banana trees and a lot of different ways to water plants. Not...
Always Fun!
Seoyeon Lauren Kim, Grade 10 Ava, FIB.: As the first service since I came to this school, Incredible Edible was a very rewarding experience to me. I have learned many new things and skills not only about gardening and plants, but also have I learned many things about...
Deeper connections
Tsz Kei MOK Jasmine ,10HXi : This is the first service I had at this UWC, Incredible Edible is truly an experience. It was an experience not many people could experience. We would gather after school, go down to the garden and start gardening. We learnt about how to...
Nature’s cycle
Yasheng Jiang(10HXi): This service is called “ Incredible Edible”. It is really incredible that we did so many things on the campus such as cutting down the banana tree and papaya tree, weeding the plants and composting the dead parts of the plant. There is a cycle in...
The “Monkey Bar” for the Beans
Like anything that is placed in the garden, the monkey bars are made and placed for a specific reason. The purpose of the Monkey Bars is to aid or assist the beans to grow up instead of growing on each other. For the structure we made 3 poles holding the roof part of...
My Experience with Incredible Edible By Yonatan Carmon
One notable part of my experience in Incredible Edible this year has been teaching people who are new to the service about things in the garden. This is my second year in this service and my third year in a gardening service. Some of the things I’ve helped teach are;...
The most enjoyable experience in incredible edible (By Dyne Choi)
I joined this service this year, and I’ve enjoyed almost everything that I did so far. The thing that I enjoyed the most is planting various plants and vegetables in the garden. During the process of planting, I moved plants that were planted in the small pots to our...
My Gardening Experience
Over the months of gardening (one season), my knowledge and experience of gardening have both grown. From the start, I did not know what to do and had no experience in gardening. I started to learn and concentrate on how to garden correctly, I really enjoyed it....
The importance of gardening
Over the months of gardening I realized how important it is to have a garden because it provides healthy food in a way that is sustainable. The food is made in our school and is grown with our hands. It also makes us go out more into the sunlight and make something...
What do we grow?
Special Projects
Community Fair 2019
We will be selling herb pots at the community fair
Advisor group challenge
Can you keep your herb alive?
Trip to visit Citizen Farm
We are planning a visit to Citizen farm
Herb gardens
We are hoping to make herb gardens for our community
A tour round our garden
Why did we join Incredible Edibles? (2019-20)
I joined Incredible Edible because I want to help save nature and I like growing plants.
I joined Incredible Edibles because I love to plant and I care a lot about plants and when I was younger I used to plant in India.
I joined Incredible Edibles because I’ll get the opportunity to learn a lot about planting and growing foods since I haven’t had much past experience. Also, I want to contribute to preserving nature by gardening.
I joined Incredible Edibles because when I was little I loved to dig holes and garden.
Edible Jokes
Why aren't bananas ever lonely?
… because they hang out in bunches.
What do veggies say on their birthday?
Lettuce celebrate!
What makes some plants better at math than others?
Square roots!
What do you call a garden nursery?
Plant Parenthood!
What do you call a nervous tree?
A sweaty palm!
How do plants practice self-care?
They try to weed out unnecessary drama!
What is the strongest vegetable?
A muscle sprout!
What do you call a retired vegetable?
A has bean!
What did the father tomato say to the baby tomato whilst on a family walk?
Katchup!
