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harvest lesson |
Granny's
Garden School
Keeping kids in touch
with nature
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 Broccoli
Team #1 - clipboard & pencil, measuring cup,
12" long string, ruler
The very first garden you come to on the hill
has broccoli to harvest. Harvest the heads of broccoli and leave
the plants. You can harvest the broccoli
by grabbing hold of the head and twisting like
you were turning a door knob. Place your harvest in a clean basket.
When you eat broccoli, what part of the plant
are you eating?
Approximately how many cups of broccoli did you
harvest.
What was the circumference of the largest head
of broccoli?
Once you have completed your assignment and answered
the questions, each child may pick five flowers.
Potatoes
Team #2 - clipboard & pencil, 12" long string,
ruler - How many potatoes did you harvest. What was the diameter of the
smallest potato? What was the circumference of the largest potato? |
 Once
you have completed your assignment and answered the questions, each child
may pick five flowers.
Carrots
Team #3 clipboard & pencil, 12" long string,
ruler
There are carrots in many gardens. Pull
and wash the carrots leaving tops on. Most of the carrots will come out
easily if you grab them close to the
soil. If the top breaks off, use a trowel
to loosen the carrot.
How many carrots did
you harvest?
What is the length of
the longest carrot?
What is the circumference
of the fattest carrot you harvested?
Once you have completed your assignment and answered
the questions, each child may pick five flowers.
Green
Peppers
Team #4 clipboard & pencil, 12" long
string, ruler
A number of gardens have green pepper plants.
Pick the peppers, pull the plants and put the plants on the compost pile.
How many green peppers
did you harvest?
What is the circumference
of the fattest green pepper you harvested?
How tall is the tallest
green pepper you harvested?
Once you have completed your assignment and answered
the questions, each child may pick five flowers.
Tomatoes-Green
Beans
Team #5 clipboard & pencil
There are a couple of tomato plants that have
ripe and green tomatoes. Pick all and pull plants.
How many tomatoes did
you harvest?
Can you eat green tomatoes?
Look in the gardens for bean plants, pick all
of the beans (green, brown even dead looking ones) and place plants in
compost pile.
When you eat bean soup,
baked beans or refried beans, what part of the bean plant are you eating?
Once you have completed your assignment and answered
the questions, each child may pick five flowers.
Supplies:
Journals/clipboards
Black sharpie markers (at least 4)
scissors
string (barn)
rulers
4 plastic buckets (in van)
Prior to going out:
1. Do you have time for the kids to prepare a
garden journal before they go out?
2. Bring scissors so they can each pick a flower.
3. Bring rulers so they can a. measure 18" (their
space in the box) & heights of plants in their space.
4. Bring lengths of string (available in the
barn). Use lengths of string to measure plants and rulers to measure
string.
5. Remind them to stay on the garden paths or
grass and not walk in the gardens.
6. Determine which child will be in which garden
box. (see attached file for chart)
7. Determine who will be your first team leader
in each box. This position rotates each time out.
8. Take black sharpie makers so they can write
their names on the top edge of the boxes to identify their spots.
Outside:
1. Make box assignments. Write names on
boxes.
2. Identify which plants are weeds
3. Pull all weeds in and around the boxes/paths.
4. Team leaders get buckets from van. It
is the team leader's job to take the weeds to the compost pile.
5. Identify and record names of plants in journal.
6. Include a description (perhaps sketch) of
leaf shape and produce/flowers.
7. Measure and record height of plants.
8. Plant lettuce seeds. (in barn) If there
is leaf mulch in your bed, you will need to move it back to expose the
soil before planting.
9. Give each team leader a pack of seeds.
Show her how to give each of her team members a pinch of seeds.
10: Have them plant the seeds in their beds wherever
there is bare soil.
11. Have the team leader pass out scissors.
12. Before picking flowers to take home, have
them spread out along the fence and deadhead the dahlias. Show each
team leader how to cut the
flower back to where the stem joins the main
plant. Dead flowers go in buckets then compost pile.
13. Each child picks one dahlia and one zinnia.
Take one home and give one away to someone not in your class.
14. Team leaders return buckets to van.
The class will be harvesting produce from different
gardens on the hill. Meet me in the hill gardens. Beginning
at 10:30, I will be guiding
a special group of visitors. We will meet
you on the hill. Below are the kinds of things I see the class harvesting
and where to harvest it from. My plan
is to bring the visitors into the action and
have them assist the kids. All of the produce should be put in separate
containers (carrots, broccoli, potatoes,
peppers, beans). I will have containers.
For this class only, please have them already divided into five groups.
# 1-5. Please
bring out five clipboards and pencils.
Pick a record keeper for each group. They will carry the pencils
and
clipboards and a one cup measure if you have
it.
I will have five assignments outlined. Each
group will be given a different assignment with written instructions.
See below.
The two of you will be working with the 3rd class
Bring them to the gardens
on the hill to gather all of the harvested produce and transport it to
the table next to the barn in the front courtyard.
They should empty cleaning
buckets (there will be mud in the bottom so have them dump the buckets
on the compost pile, not the grass or the
parking lot. Please
bring down any tools, etc. that are there.
Pull the marigolds that
are all along the wall against the building where we just put in the benches
for the sunflower reading room and put them in
the compost pile.
Pick five flowers.
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