First Day of Education Programs

What a beautiful day for all of our camps to start! Today was the first day of garden explorers, farmer for a week, and 4H/farm corps. I spent the majority of the day with our 11 garden explorers, and boy did we explore. Here are some things we did today:

• Everyone got their own farm journal to use all week
• Learned about the parts of the plant and played a game about what we learned
• seed, root, stem, leaf, flower, fruit
• Harvested swiss chard and used it in a salad we made for a snack
• we even made a homemade salad dressing
• Each garden explorer adopted a plot to take care of for the week
• Watered and weeded the learning garden
• Spent some time with the chickens, some people even chose to hold a chicken
• Sang a farm song
• Started the process of growing alfalfa sprouts by soaking the seeds in water

It was a very exciting to have the learning garden full of kids! I look forward to a week of fun! I'm going to try to post everyday, each day I will spend time with the garden explorers and farmer for a week, so the pictures may be more of one group than another depending on the day. See everyone tomorrow!