Reflections & Stories
16/11/23 – Transporting plants for the Infant schoolers
This session was dedicated to bringing down plants from the rooftop garden all the way down to the infant school gardens in preparation for our collaboration next week. We will be collaborating with two K1 classes next week to help restore and add fresh new plants to...
9/11/23 – Rainy Weather
Today was spent transplanting many of the cuttings and seeds that had grown over the break. Today's weather was rather miserable as it rained continuously over the session save for the last twenty minutes. However, dour weather did not impede our progress. While we...
5/10/23 – Starting Season 1 of Urban Gardening Propagation
Urban Gardening Propagation started just three weeks ago and progress has been astounding! The first lesson (21/9/23) was dedicated to goal making, and we have decided one of our major goals for the next two seasons is to build a therapeutic garden to help reduce...
Swot Analysis ’23
This Swot analysis was done with the 10th Grade Students in February, at the start of the school year. We also did some Goal setting and identified our goals as the follwing, 1) Work with students in infant school to provide small plants so that they can observe ...
20.04.2023 – Corn, Daisies, Bok Choy and Kale!
Date: 20th April, 2023 We had a busy day in the garden planting a variety of organic vegetables and flowers. We started by planting 32 corn plants, then transplanted moringa, a native Indian plant, known for its medical properties. Next, we planted 77 Daisy flowers...
09.03.2023 – Lots of Oregano! Propagation and Transplanting
Date: 9th March 2023 Today we focused on planting new seeds and growing new plants! We first planted 52 seeds of Oregano. Oregano has generally had a good, reliable outcome each time we have planted it, so it is, and will be, one of the plants we continue to plant...
23.03.2023 – Transplanting Morigna, Strawberry Spinach, Rosella and More!
Date: 23rd March 2023 Today we planted 50 Moringa seeds. Looking at the Moringa crops we had previously planted, they had good outcomes, meaning they could potentially be the primary crops we grow in the future. Despite the rapid growth of each plant, the yield from...
02.03.2023 – Planting Seeds and Transplanting!
Date: 2nd March 2022 Today we planted several different plants and also made a few transplants of seedlings. We covered significant ground by splitting up into different groups to work separately on different plants. We planted several seeds of different plants from...
Gardening with K1 Buddies! – 10th November 2022
In a collaboration with several K1 students, the urban gardening propagation group planted a variety of herbs and vegetables in two different gardens. We planned this event to happen during our lunchtimes so we would get to interact and teach the K1's more about...