This week I brought in the remaining supplies of some British candy from England to share with students. I also brought in some kale salad and pickled beets. Most students tried the beets and comments ranged from "tastes like tadpoles" to "I love beets". Making healthy food a staple of a child's diet fosters healthy eating habits for life.
Next we watched a video on the tower garden. Mrs Scheuerman kindly offered to let us use her tower garden. The tower garden is a vertical aeroponic tower that uses no soil, 10% of the land than conventional gardening and 10% of the water. Water with nourishing solution is pumped up the tower and as it comes back down, it hits the roots of the plants and provides nourishment to the plants.
To find out more about tower gardens, go to http://www.towergarden.com/.
Finally, we went outside to show new students where the future garden would be and enjoyed playing in the snow with a beautiful sunset over Cedar Rapids.
Anthony's definition of a snowball was a little scary :)
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