Plant a Smile at Pelion Outdoor Classroom!
Just like that! I promise last week every leaf was still green! As you plan your fall engagements, please consider spending some time at Pelion. DATES FOR CLOSING PELION:*2NOV 10-NOON5, 7, 8 NOV 3-5 PM9 & 11 NOV 10-NOONPlease bring pumpkins/gourds/corn stalks/hay bales/bagged leaves to feed our worms! Pelion SQUASH*SMASH*SMOOSH9NOV 10am-1pm @212 Best St Choose from an array of sharp and dangerous IMPLEMENTS to completely DEEEESTROY the lovely loads of squooshy jack-o-lanterns and pumpkins, gourds, corn stalks and other compostable treasures. BRING your sad or excess squash and wear a shirt you don't mind drenching in pumpkin guts. ALSO NEEDED: bagged leaves and/or old sheets We will show you how to close your veggie beds for the season and create a FEAST for your worms to replenish your soil all winter.https://www.facebook.com/events/506228052314068 🕵🏼HOW MANY NATIVES CAN YOU IDENTIFY? 🧐
Reminder: no club meetup because we have the 3Sisters Potluck. Come for dinner! 5-7pm ALL BELLIES WELCOME
There are millions of different leaves! How do Naturalists and Botanists categorize plants? How do they describe the variety of traits to others? Scientists had to develop a shared vocabulary. We teach our students that science has a language which makes communicating ideas and principles easier to convey. 6th graders use a chart to identify over 40 specific characteristics then describe them aloud. In our other lesson students learn why/how leaves change color and transferred the natural pigments onto paper. 5th graders learn about chlorophyll, its benefit to the plant and humans; then they get to do leaf rubbings.
Happy Indigenous People's Day! Please spend some time watching this and sharing our invitation to see our 3 Sisters garden and potluck in person this Thursday. Just a pronunciation note: Haudenosaunee (Hoe-dee-no-SHOW-nee), meaning "People of the Longhouse."
Big crowd! Big CRUNCH. Most of the apples were from Blackman Homestead. Varieties included: golden delicious, Paula red, jonamac and NJ greening.
