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Gardening for Good at Summit Atlas High
On the busy corner of Roxbury & 35th street our school garden thrives, filled with tomatoes, cucumbers, kale, peas, and carrots. This garden is doing more than just providing our AP Environmental Science class with an educational opportunity; it’s helping to solve a bigger problem known as food deserts. Urban food deserts are areas where it’s hard to find affordable fresh produce, where there are no large grocery stores and supermarkets, and instead, neighborhoods are filled with convenience stores and fast-food restaurants that don’t benefit the low-income communities around us. In our school garden we are growing tomatoes, snap peas, kale, cucumbers and carrots. We have our crops organized into…
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Spring is in the Air- Or is that Zoo Doo?
Tired Garden Beds? do you need a little zip for the zoochini, pep for the peas , or oomph for the okra- Zoo Doo is availabe now from Woodlawn Park Zoo. Zoo Doo is straw, woodchips, wood shavings and manure from non-primate herbivores. The compost is ready for immediate application on all edible and non-edible plants Set up an appointment. Pickup is next to the Woodland Park Rose Garden. At your appointment time, arrive at the Zoo Doo yard, back your vehicle up to the pile of fully mature compost, and load the compost by hand. You can take as much or as little as you want for your gardens,…
