How exciting to have a community garden right across the street. I'm in Kansas and have a little longer growing season than you although when the weather turns cooler I have volunteers shift to other jobs. For example, turning compost, checking on worms in worm bins, feeding worms, organizing tools, cleaning up fall leaves, making "brown" pile for mixing in throughout winter months, cutting up plants that have been clipped to put on the compost pile, cleaning tools, gathering seeds for the next growing season, starting seeds inside about 10-12 weeds before last frost date for transplanting into garden…
I find that the more I get parents/volunteers involved the more I find who is really passionate about gardening. Garden helps come and go and the work never ends so the more processes and procedures you have in place ahead of time the better the garden will proceed forward.
Good luck my gardening friend!
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Jena Simms
Wichita Collegiate School
Wichita KS
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Original Message:
Sent: 01-06-2023 06:41:09 PM
From: Julia Chambers
Subject: School garden for 9 month yr
We live in w. michigan. and have a community garden that is right across from an elementary school. We have had some kids come in late may to help in it...but we would love to have the kids learn about gardening and work in it from time to time during the school yr.
Has anyone had a school garden in the midwest where our growing season is only about 4-5 months? It seems that many volunteers would be needed to care for it during the main growing season. Any ideas? Thanks
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Julia Chambers
AFFEW
Fountain MI
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