Cultivating Kids

Monday, August 19, 2013

Now Donating our Fresh Produce to the St. Charles Children's Home!

Our garden is in full bloom - and giving us lots of cherry tomatoes, beans, and cucumbers! For the past months, we have been taking the produce to the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen. Recently, they let us know that although they very much appreciate our fresh veggies, they help to feed many people every day, whereas at the St. Charles Children's Home there are many less mouths to feed - which would mean our produce would make a much bigger difference!

The St. Charles Children's Home was in agreement with us and so we've decided to give our produce to the Home each week.

Hope to see you at Garden Day this Thursday morning to help us so gather the veggies to bring to the Children's Home! Thanks for everyone's continued support to the Cultivating Kids Garden Program!

Thursday, August 8, 2013

Garden Day, August 8th!

This morning we had another garden day and though it looked like rain, we stayed dry! Today we picked weeds, harvested purple beans and cherry tomatoes, explored the garden, and painted garden gnomes! We'll see you next time on Thursday, August 22nd!

Hannah's purple bean

Sarah looking for beans!

Zinnias looking gorgeous!

More zinnias!

Rebecca did a great job pulling lots of weeds for us today!

Our cherry tomatoes are ripening!

Our marigolds are looking lovely, too!

Rebecca painting her garden gnome.

The cucumbers are getting bigger!

Hannah demonstrating how tall the corn is growing!

Logan painting his vampire gnome.

Sadie and Chloe painting their gnomes.

Our harvest for the day!

Sadie's beautiful gnome!

We found some bugs!

Logan's finished vampire gnome!

We found some mysterious insect eggs...

Rebecca pulled up a serious weed!

Chloe's finished gnome!

Thursday, July 25, 2013

Purple beans!

Our purple beans grew like crazy! We had so many that we harvested some yesterday. We'll soon have more - and tomatoes, too! Join us for the next Garden Day on August 8th where we will be harvesting, watering, weeding, and painting our own garden gnomes!

See you then!

Thursday, July 18, 2013

Thursday July 18th Garden Day!

We had so much gardening fun this morning! We harvested some peas, weeded a lot, and watered everything (several times!) We found a few interesting bugs and had a blast despite the heat.

We found an aphid!

We also spotted this beetle underneath a zucchini plant!

Checking out the zucchini plants.

Maxx found a whole bunch of blooming zinnias!

Maxx did a wonderful job watering the garden!

Chloe helped us pick a lot of weeds!

We harvested some peas!

Diana helped us water (the plants and the pavement!)

Can you spot the dragonfly that Maxx found?

We'll see you next time on Thursday, August 8th! We'll be doing a (really fun!) craft and lots of more gardening fun!

Tuesday, July 16, 2013

Garden Day is this Thursday, July 18th at 10-11AM!

Come help us garden this Thursday, July 18th anytime between 10 and 11AM! We'll be harvesting, pulling weeds, watering, and looking around for cool bugs to identify! Kids 2 and up are welcome to come (little ones, please bring your grown-up with you - older kids can attend independently) anytime during the hour to help us out in the garden.

Please be sure to wear lots of sunscreen and a hat as well as your best gardening clothes-since we're watering and pulling weeds, it may get a little muddy! See you on Thursday!

Tuesday, July 9, 2013

Zucchini and Peas!

We had a big harvest of peas and a great zucchini that we'll be sending over to the Salvation Army Soup Kitchen! We're sure there will be more to pick come next Garden Day on Thursday, July 18th!

Thursday, June 27, 2013

June 27th Garden Day!

Although it was cloudy, we had a great turnout and there wasn't any rain - perfect weather for weeding, planting beans, and harvesting radishes! We also created our own mobiles for the garden!