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Tag Archives: School garden
Dryland three-sisters garden created at school
On Saturday, May 6, about 12 people came to learn about possibilities in dryland agriculture and help implement a ‘three-sisters’ garden in the arroyo next to the Taos Charter School. This workshop and garden was the second in a series … Continue reading
Permaculture workshop planned to create a school garden 5/6/2017
A Taos non-profit organization Agriculture Implementation Research & Education (AIRE) is coordinating a workshop in the basics of Permaculture and arid-lands agriculture. The workshop is a collaboration between AIRE, the National Immigrant Farming Initiative (NIFI), the Los Jardineros Garden Club, … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, Permaculture, School garden, Spring 2017, Taos, workshop
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Cultivation at our school garden
Unlike yesterday’s workshop on cultivating weeds in the garlic patch, today’s effort was a walk in the park! The weeds at Parr Field are so small that weeding them is easy to the point where a stir-up hoe is all … Continue reading
Posted in AIRE, Parr Field, Uncategorized
Tagged hoeing weeds, School garden, soil cultivation, weeding
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A return to the summer camp for seed activities
Today we return to Mesa Vista Schools near Ojo Caliete to support their summer “camp” program with agriculture activities. Last Wednesday we constructed a 4′ by 4′ raised bed and planted radishes, carrots, and lettuce. This Wednesday we will give … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture activities, agriculture education, School garden, seed activities
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The “three sisters” emerge at school garden
This is the awesome time of year when we exclaim from our heart: IT WORKED!!! ITS ALIVE!!! WE DID IT!!! This photo shows maize (corn) on the left, squash in the middle, and beans on the right. The battery in … Continue reading
Raised bed garden at summer camp
Today was an awesome day for the expansion of AIRE’s summer activities and the fulfillment of our mission “To Gather the People and Plant the Fields.” We are expanding our repertoire to include implementation of the “Square Foot Gardening” method … Continue reading
Ready to plant at Parr Field
After today we are ready to plant the main part of the school garden, our milpa. You can see the rows look real nice. We use a hiller/furrower attachment on the back of the tiller to make our rows straight … Continue reading
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Tagged agriculture, garden, garden preparation, gardening, School garden, soil, soil preparation
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Preparing garden soil at Parr Field
Thursdays are typically field trip days for Chrysalis Alternative School so today we put the ‘field’ in our field trip by going to Parr Field and making some progress on the soil preparations for next week’s planting activities. In an … Continue reading
Checking out Parr Field
While we were planting garlic, it dawned on us that we still had some hoses, tools, and crops out at Parr Field. So here we are tidying up the field and getting the last of our crops. As we plan … Continue reading
