Herb Patch + City Farmer

On Thursday, we planted some more seeds in our herb patch: cilantro and parsley.  We'll transplant the basil plants soon.

Our chives are pretty healthy as well...

As is all of our kale!

Some of us also took a tour of City Farmer, a demo garden on the corner of Maple and 6th.  I've included a link to the entire photo album below (we took quite a few photos).  We also got some great ideas for planting, composting, watering, and much more!  If you ever find yourself near the demo garden, be sure to drop by for a visit, it's highly recommended!

City Farmer album: https://plus.google.com/u/0/photos/117766690004523371125/albums/5734450801914943809?authkey=CKfJ-_SXtN6G9wE

Seeds!

We planted some new tomato and parsley seeds last week, and they've already germinated! They're currently sitting in a windowed room in the school, where they'll be getting plenty of sunlight during the day.

We're going to be transplanting these guys in mid-March, so stay tuned until then...

Thank you to the Kits Seed Library of Village Vancouver for supplying us with our parsley seeds and some basil seeds! Next year, we'll be sure to give some of our garden's seeds back to the Library. (You can find more information about the Seed Library and Village Vancouver here: http://www.villagevancouver.ca/group/kits-village-seed-savers-kits-seed-library)

Kale, Chard, and Canada Geese

We had another very productive meeting today at the garden. A dedicated group of gardeners showed up to help us plant some kale (brought in by Ms. Chung) and some Swiss chard (brought in by Danielle) that will grow over the winter. We also got a chance to use our compost, which has been over two years in the making, and it is as healthy as ever. We're keeping the newer kale plants covered for now so they have a chance to grow undisturbed while they adjust to their new home.

Hopefully the newly transplanted kale will grow as abundantly as our existing plants, seen below. Here we are harvesting some kale that was planted last season. Some tips for eating include:

-Boil and serve with oil and vinegar

-Stir-fry and serve with other dishes

-Eat raw

Kale also tends to get sweeter after the first frost.

A bit of a post script here, but at the end of our meeting, we saw huge flocks of migrating Canada geese:

That's it for now. Stay tuned for more!