Sunday March 24th
3-5pm
moving soil
transplanting bronze fennel and sorrel
a bit of pruning...
An Ontario home north of King Ed donated some soil - we will be in between the house and the school. We have wheelbarrows and wagons and pruners and trowels.
Bring a shovel if you have one - and some muscle and sunglasses!
It's free, fun and a great way to work up an appetite for Sunday dinner
Pick up trucks welcome!
RSVP generalwolfegardens@gmail.com
General Wolfe Elementary School Grounds Committee has had Green Street Boulevards, food gardens and indigenous species naturalized playspaces and outdoor landscaped classrooms. Whole Foods Whole Kids Foundation, Think & Eat Green and our own PAC have contributed to our activities. The Gardens have been part of Wolfe for 25 years and we need new parent volunteers to keep on growing.
Saturday, March 23, 2013
Friday, March 15, 2013
The Sun is Coming...
The Vancouver Sun, that is... to do a story on happiness and our sunflower project.
Now, that's something to be happy about :-)
That, and our new 'Money Penny' plant had about 3 dozen babies.
And we found a 'snail grotto' of 14 snails in the bee and butterfly garden.
Build it and they will come!
Thursday, March 14, 2013
Take the Challenge
Have you noticed the hallway near Ms Collin's class?
April is be Kind to the Environment Month at Wolfe!
Hopefully you can see their iPad video they made about their apple a day challenge.
Apples come in their own 'wrapper' = No garbage, makes compost, locally grown in BC!
Friday, March 1, 2013
Heroes of All Ages
From Tupper to Wolfe
With the help of Grade 11's at Tupper and many Grade 7's from Wolfe, we unloaded wood for our garden bed design.
Well done, everyone!
Thanks especially to Russ Evans and Cyrus for suburb rope tying teamwork :-)
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Snowberry on Ontario @ 26th
Not for humans to eat, these white berries are one of the few bright spots of winter interests in our gardens at this time of year. You can see this indigenous plant growing under forest canopies near Squamish and in many places other than General Wolfe Elementary. Ours are located in our Bee & Butterfly friendly garden - so I guess it could be a Bird Friendly garden too, as some ground birds will feed on them (however, I have yet to see a quail, pheasant or grouse in our urban habitat :-)
Sunday, January 20, 2013
Winter Planning
We are working on a plan for the back garden by the annex and tennis court areas. This would be better for growing food crops and improve the existing naturalized play spaces. Anyone is welcome to help with the design and comments are welcome.
We are also hoping to join the Master Gardener Community Project list so we can have some hands-on experts for our spring seedling plantings, helping in classrooms and of course, helping our Green Streets garden and Green Team.
There are inspirational books in our library - the Edible Schoolyard and Ashphalt to Ecosystems.
Tuesday, January 1, 2013
Frozen Ground!
Well, finally the sun came out, but the free soil sits, too cold to dig!
Winter is a quiet time for gardens, but soon the new green shoots will start to poke up.
Last fall the Kindergarteners all planted a bulb, so we look forward to their sleeping plants waking up.
Bugs also sleep in the leaves, stems and trunks, and when the weather warms, they will emerge.
Winter is a quiet time for gardens, but soon the new green shoots will start to poke up.
Last fall the Kindergarteners all planted a bulb, so we look forward to their sleeping plants waking up.
Bugs also sleep in the leaves, stems and trunks, and when the weather warms, they will emerge.
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