Verde Partnership Team Update
Verde Partnership team update We are now entering our plant science unit with K-3rd grade. We hope to deepen their already innate understanding of plants and their wonders. We started off by experiencing plants with our senses We made soap with ceanothus flowers, observed ladybug houses in fava bean leaves using magnifying glasses, tasted borage […]
True or False?
Verde Partnership Garden! True or false? Worms have little hairs This week we’ve been continuing to learn about soil health, circling back up to worms and learning more about their anatomy and life cycle. We have been becoming more and more fond of them and less grossed out since we have been learning about how […]
Finishing our Soil Unit
VPG! Where the blue jays sing and the bees buzz. We are welcoming spring! Finishing up our soil unit with k-3 and starting it with 6-8th grade. With George Washington Carver in spirit and mine, we did an experiment, (many thanks to our soil scientist fairy friend Cole ) where we added hydrogen peroxide to […]
Soil Biodiversity
Hi all! It’s the Verde Partnership Garden crewWe continue to learn about soil biodiversity and George Washington Carver! Aside from being a soil and plant scientist, educator and healer, he was also a gifted artist! Some grades coloured in a soil biodiversity worksheet with soil! Other grades were working with Precita Eyes muralists who are […]
Observing Metamorphosis
Verde Partnership Garden update we’ve had challenging weeks (fewer and fewer students), but we continue with garden education Classes continue to observe the metamorphosis of monarch butterflies soon we will do a release with 6th grade. We have also been learning about the importance of mulching to help our soil temperature and biodiversity stay balanced […]
Verde Partnership Garden Update! Seeds!
Verde partnership garden update We have been learning about soil biodiversity, and seed biodiversity. We spend time learning about seeds, what they need to grow and where they come from. Ms. Meza showed us an 11-year-old fava bean pod that is a mix between purple and green, a unique gem! We also learn about the […]
Soil Health Unit!
At Verde partnership garden we have been learning about soil biodiversity & community health. With our soil health unit, each student is growing a fava bean and watching them grow, learning about plant parts. We know fava beans as an amazing snack but also very nourishing to our soil. We are also learning about how […]
Learning About Food Traditions at Verde!
Verde K-8 update !This week we continued learning about food traditions. We learned about the Ohlone people and how they continue to protect and tend to this land we are on. We gathered acorns from the coast live oak. We love to see how these rains have brought a sea of worms! In many classrooms […]
Volunteers at Verde!
Verde partnership update! Thank you Hass Sustainability Task Force (UC Berkeley) for coming to volunteer with us at Verde, we had a great time planting cilantro and doing some infrastructure maintenance. Verde partnership garden this week planted carrots! We are also learning about food traditions. We are sprouting a project where youth interview caretakers, older […]