Posted in Local "Green" Events, tagged FLorida School of Holistic Living, FSHL, health, movie, nature of plants, numen, plants on November 19, 2009 | 1 Comment »
I’m going to try to hit this one… it looks good.
Friday, December 4, 2009
7 PM – 10 PM
1109 E. Concord St, Orlando FL 32803Numen: The Nature of Plants is a captivating film about the healing power of plants and our modern society. Learn more about the film and see a 15 minute preview at numenfilm.com.
Posted in Local "Green" Events, Organic Gardening, tagged blodgett's nursery, class, garden, gardening, leu gardens, organic, organic growers, plants, simple living institute, vegan ethos kitchen on July 13, 2009 | 6 Comments »
For those interested in learning more about organic gardening!
Organic Growers Meeting
hosted by Simple Living InstituteJuly 15
7 AM – 9 AM
Leu Gardens
1920 Forest Ave.
Orlando, FLThe meeting is free and open to anyone interested in organic gardening, foods, or products. Arrive early at 6:30 for socializing, food, and beverages. Afterwards we continue the discussion nearby at Ethos Vegan Kitchen from 9-10pm.
This month Nick Francisco of Blodgett’s Nursery will chair an Open Forum on gardening successes and challenges. Bring samples of plants and or write your comments and questions on a note card. Nick will also discuss the BRIX quality evaluation system.
As always, bring any surplus from your garden to share, treats for the tasting table, and plants and gardening supplies for the raffle table. (Tix $1 each, 6 for $5)
Simple Living is adding a sales table to the meetings. Items include wormcomposting products, garden patch boxes, totes & t-shirts. 2 gal banana plants at $8 each; 1 gal blueberry, pineapple & papaya plants @ $5.
For more info call (321)228-4310 or email info@simplelivinginstitute.org
Posted in Fun Stuff for Kids, Organic Gardening, tagged flowers, harvest, kids, petunia, plants, SFG, square foot garden, vegetables on April 23, 2008 | 3 Comments »
While getting a harvest wasn’t part of the goals set out by the mini series of articles, I thought I’d share some pictures of our harvest. I always consider any kind of harvest as “bonus” when gardening with kids. It isn’t the point of the project, but it is fun when a batch of kids can manage to get to a crop of some kind. They are always so proud of themselves!
The church daycare kids harvested their beans and radishes and we had a good time preparing them and eating them. Back here at the home garden, we did the same only the harvest was petunia blossoms and beans.
I like to just use school safety scissors with young kids for harvesting. The scissors are less than a dollar, you can find them anywhere, the kids get practice with fine motor skills, and it helps keep them from destroying the plants by accident. Just a little snip will get the item off.
Granted, mine sometimes performs “plant haircuts” as well as “harvesting,” but it is her garden and so long as she leaves my kitchen garden “haircut free” all is good.
We got a bowl full of green beans from her little 4×4 ft square foot garden box. The beans were nice and straight, had a good mellow flavor, and were easy to tend both at home at church. All the kids said they’d want to grow those again. My family agreed with them.
So I would reccommend planting Burpee’s Bush Bean Bush Blue Lake 47 with kids in this climate. Seed Savers Empress Beans were also a nice bush bean type with good flavor, but I had more trouble keeping it bean mosaic free than the Burpee. Save that for the adult kitchen garden.
I got invited to help set up another children’s urban garden later this year for a charity group — so I’m excited to be planning another square foot adventure for a fresh batch of kids!
I hope you’ve enjoyed the mini SFG series and you are all off planting your own now. Remember, you can always check the Orange County Extension office or the Seminole County Extension office for extra plant help if you run into trouble.
Or drop me a line and I’ll do my best to help you with your SFG. Happy growing!
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