So marks the first meeting of the
TEAM Academy Garden Club. The club is
made up of dedicated scholars willing to give up their lunch breaks to plant,
weed and water a collection of vegetables and herbs that we hoped to harvest
through the Spring, Summer and Fall.
Fifth
Grade Members:
Azmir,
Kazim, Messiah and Hakim
Sixth
Grade Members:
A’Kayla,
Shawn, Elijah, Tyra and Shalisa
At this, our first meeting, we
talked about three topics that we hoped to take away from this experience: How
to Garden, Sustainability and Healthy Eating.
The first of these ideas was obvious to everyone. A Garden Club has to do with gardening and we
were going to learn how to garden using a mix of experience, patience, and
trial and error. A discussion of
sustainability was much more abstract and touched on such ideas as feeding not
just ourselves but others, taking care of our environment and the repercussions
of pollution on farming along with the effects of Mother Nature on crops with
the impact of droughts, floods and pestilence.
And finally we talked about how raising our own food informs our eating
habits. Recognizing that one could grow
potatoes but not potato chips, wheat but not Twinkies, we focused our discussion
on what is healthy eating and how one can determine if a food is healthy or
unhealthy. Our conclusion, if you can
pick it straight from the garden and eat it, it’s good for you!
Then we planted radishes, carrots,
peas and tomato plants.
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