Behind the library we have peas, carrots, and swiss chard.
Escuela Longfellow's Classroom Garden
OUR VISION
Ultimately, our garden will be a true outdoor classroom with places to sit and read, observe the seasonal changes, actively plant, and teach through participation and stories. When additional funds or grants become available we plan to add improvements such as fencing and gates adjacent to the field, a storage shed, composting bins, a trellis for growing butterfly vines, outdoor seating, and several different types of fruit trees.
RESOURCES:
California School Garden Network
Kids Gardening
California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom
WHAT TO PLANT THIS SEASON: SPRING
Tomatoes, peppers, eggplant, squash
THANK YOU
Home Depot for plants
Hunter Irrigation for the controller
All the families who helped write the grants, build the beds, dig trenches and lay irritation piping, and
The teachers who use the garden to teach from
GARDEN DIARIES
Lessons learned from the garden: Seedlings need to be thinned out once they sprout so that they have plenty of room to grow. 
Cammie, _______ and _______ dig holes to plant the new seedlings
Julius, _________ and _______ carefully dig around the drip irrigation lines. Drip irrigation saves water and ensures the plants get the moisture they need.
Allison plants one of the tomato plants in the “salsa bed”
Stella plants the Milkweed, (also known as Butterfly weed) which will attract Monarch and Swallowtail butterflies.
Beets, carrots and marigolds The sugar snap peas were the kid’s favorite for snacking.
EXCERPTS
from our favorite poems by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
Gorgeous flowerets in the sunlight shining,
Blossoms flaunting in the eye of dayIn all places, then, and in all seasons,
Flowers expand their light and soul-like wings,
Teaching us, by most persuasive reasons,
How akin they are to human things.And with childlike, credulous affection
We behold their tender buds expand;
Emblems of our own great resurrection,
Emblems of the bright and better land.
Flowers.All your strength is in your union
All your danger is in discord;
Therefore be at peace henceforward,
And as brothers live together.The Song of Hiawatha. Part i.
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