Pumpkin Readiness
Tomorrow, I will conduct a lesson on pumpkins for my garden club students. It is one of my favorite lessons! Pumpkins are a great plant to utilize when explaining an…
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I’m Late, I’m Late, I’m Late for a Very Important ……Slice!
Today’s slice comes to you late! Usually, I wake up, get my high schooler’s out the door and then write my blog . Whether it is for the Slice of…
Home Grown Honey
I am getting hooked on locally home-grown honey! In the past month, I have been lucky enough on two occasions to get some samples! The first was from Five Hands…
Fruit Trees & The Weather: It seems to be all or none
For the last 18 years, we’ve had a home fruit orchard. I can’t call it a backyard orchard as it was at our first home in the mid-west, as our…
When Volunterism is Sprayed in the Face.
This week was difficult. Mid-week I saw a sign posted in our butterfly garden at school. It was not supposed to be there, but yet it was. Just a mere…
Helping Bees, Helps Us
Our garden club theme this year is on Pollinators, of which we have covered Bats, Hummingbirds, and Bees. They are all fascinating, but as I prepared for the bee unit,…
