Plant a Smile at Pelion Outdoor Classroom!
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5th graders were able to plant nine Three Sisters Mounds + additional pots with a second squash and sunflowers. We’ve added the pine branches to deter digging from cats and groundhogs. Robins have already been plucking at the corn…grrr.
Gorgeous evening for making sweet memories! We loved hugging alumni! More pics once Ms.Caesandra figures out how to pluck them from txts.
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There’s only one mayoral candidate who sent a delegation to check out Green in Detroit and has been advocating homegrown and local farming for more than 15yrs. He also helped MAP/GOBIKE with the first Tour de Farms and helped Grassroots Gardens work 22 gardens around the city back when the organization was so small it was led by an Americorps member. His name is Michael Gainer.
Check out the photo album of our many Strawberry🍓Social events. It is an end of school year party and a fundraiser for our garden programming. If you would like to make a donation please INCLUDE PELION Garden in the notes section. THANK YOU. https://www.paypal.com/donate?token=HuJsgkZQgpqEmJJZfAig2_Z291g1HCr-Smq8XlIc9ApiHrEusmFp2ISA3B7SlkQed0odLtlnsvadGIDu Donations can be made in two ways: BY CHECK c/o the CH/FMP Foundation 186 E. North Street Buffalo, NY 14204 (Please make checks out to: CH/FMP Foundation Garden Fund)
Looking for a fun way to help support Pelion? Check out the Party on the Wharf, the City Honors Fosdick-Masten Park Foundation’s biggest fundraiser of the year! They provide much needed funding for our garden activities.
During the late summer, we struggle to convince folks to try eggplant, but check out these 5 Italian recipes that look pretty easy! Share any other favorite eggplant Recipes you use below. https://youtu.be/oviLEd72IkE?si=69oVbPmA582MkGw7 ,!
Make sure you save the date and join us for our 10th annual Strawberry Social! All are welcome. If you are able to help out at the event or donate comment here or send us a DM.
Busy BUSY week started with a field trip to NFALLS and ended with participating with the FruitBelt’s 25th Annual CLEAN-A-THON
Social Studies Teachers: We have 3 Sisters Plants for you. We also offer field trips Sept-Oct
Sighted 1st monarch butterfly of the season today!
It seemed like the kids thought we were fibbing about the ants defending peonies! We love this tiny story of symbiosis because we cannot get alligators and cranes to visit Pelion...yet.
There are a handful of lessons we do to observe Spring Equinox. With the 5th graders, they monitor how perennials emerge from their dormant period. With 6th graders, we do a scavenger hunt, acknowledging spring's very accelerated, brief, and unique changes!
Soggy days bring reflection. Are you a champion for school gardens or outdoor classrooms? Gardens are a tremendous amount of work. School gardens often last only 5yrs due to many issues--waning support, teacher turnover, student/parent matriculation, maintenance needs, and funding irregularities to name a few. There are so many challenges. Can you think of a person you could introduce to Pelion that might remove some challenges?
We thrive on your garbage. Recently a few people have inquired about dropping of buckets of organic waste and YES we accept it but we don't have the capacity to go pick it up from you so please collect and drop off the full buckets from the same spot you got the empties.
Would your organization like to table or share an activity?
Help organize this event by messaging Beth Kwiatek. Folks are needed to pickup and transport gear, guide groups through the service zones, collect donations of flowers for planting, greet& sign in volunteers, run activities/games for students during the festival, AND document everything with photos or video.
Stop over to my Gardening Tips table! Thanks to the generosity of Groundwork Market Garden and Grassroots Gardens I will have veggie seedlings and veggie seed packets to give away.
WOW! Reminds me of when Mrs.Moda brought her class and their human puppet masks etc LOVELY
This is the Six Nations popping corn (thanks Sylvin) we grew in 2024. It is cured and ready for popping! You can also grow some yourself with the same seed. Ears will have a range of ivory, burgundy, navy and the pastel tones of those colors. Can be grown in small mounds of 5-8 stalks. FIND US AT Groundwork Market Garden SATURDAY to take some home. https://www.facebook.com/share/18k42zeogq/
Bring a $1 and take home enough worms to start your own farm or worm bin!
If your common milkweed has exceeded its intended boundaries NOW, during this soggy weather, is the best time to chase the runners with a good fork. Ideally, before the adult monarchs arrive! As always, our duplicate natives will be available later during U-DIG events and plant sales.
A big thanks to everyone who came out to volunteer in April! This season we had something incredibly rare which was a dedicated team from UB’s Philosophy Dept that chose to work with us on building a native plant nursery. The team returned each Saturday + a few additional days to work on next steps. They helped us remove pesky mulberry and tree of heaven saplings and oriental bittersweet vines. The team will also leave a legacy at Pelion by planting 2 native redbuds which you’ll notice blooming at the tree line soon. #volunteermonth #earthmonth
We have a summer project coming up with Locust Street Art and you can help us by donating broken pots or magnets!
Ms.Weaver brought out 2 of her ELA classes to bask in the golden glow of spring! Do you have a favorite poem/poet that we should share this month?
30 RUMPS is a lot to fit. Whenever we see a bench on a curb we snatch it! WE DO NEED MORE BENCHES! We garbage picked these 2 last year and I finally had time to recover them with a sunflower print. Since much of our furnishings are 2nd hand they usually require repair. If you can tinker a bit we currently have another bench that needs attention so we can put cheeks on it again asap.
Fans, we will be selling the native 🍿 popping corn 🍿we grew! You can either grow it or pop it at home! Look for our story time blankets.
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