Seed Bombs! booom!

On this really rainy Thursday, some marvelous members of the club came to the greenhouse to make some super cool seed bombs. For those of you who are wondering, "What in the wonderful world is a seed bomb?!", they are simply seeds in some sort of biodegradable container that are chucked anywhere (usually in barren places). Mother nature biodegrades, if you will, the container and buries the seeds magically! The seeds germinate and voila! you have plants! We chose to use egg shells (from free range chickens) as our containers. Special thanks to the fantastic Mr. Christopher for suggesting this idea and to guerrillagardening.org for showing us how to make them, and more thanks to Nick, Hannah, Olivia, Harpreet, Shannon, and Max for coming out to make these! Sorry we do not have pictures, but we will definitely be making more of these great grenades soon and will snap some cool action shots. Here is the link if you'd like to make some yourself! http://www.guerrillagardening.org/ggseedbombs.html ..peace, love, plants!

Raised Bed Work Day EXTREME

RAISED BED WORK DAY X-TREME

First off, I must apologize for the lateness of this post, for those of you in school are aware that the last few weeks before spring break are always quite hectic, and by hectic, I mean utterly insane. Papers to start and finish, test to study for, phew. No time to breath. But alas, I needed to procrastinate from my literature essay, and this is a wonderful excuse. So here we go. The previous Saturday marked my Raised Bed Workshop, but, as I tell myself the reason was easter weekend, only four showed up. But thats okay. I love the four. And, jeeze, they must love me, or love super hard work or sweating or free pizza. Because I have never seen a group of young people work so hard with so much effort for nothing in return. Seriously. It was hot. The dirt was hard. I was commanding. They pressed on with full smiles. Readers, fellow students, friends, Horticulture Club officially has the hardest, most fun, most dedicated members in all the nebulas, and I am so very lucky to be able to call them my friends. But so on. In total, starting around noon, we weeded, raked, tilled, composted, we dug trenches, we cut boards, we built beds, we got blisters, we got dirty, we had fun. Around five, we had completed two HUGE raised beds, and in the process, built some mean muscles and burned some fat, that we probably replaced with loads of pizza towards the end of the day. All in all, it was exusatingly wonderous.  I hope everyone has a safe, awesome, stress-reliveing, spring holiday, and I hope to see you all the thursday we get back! We'll really be ramping up our meetings, for it is spring, and spring means growing! Service projects, seed-bombs, planting, all the good stuff is ahead! Tell your friends! And once more, a million thankyous to Teri, Hannah, Andrew, and Andrea for being the hardest working bunch of buds in the backyard! Namaste!

(Check the pictures below!)

Dirty boots!

Andrew Tillin!

The getto tiller

Weeding!

Preparing the beds!

Anthoer stump!

Andrew in the shed

WORMSS!

Old cabbage!

"For me?"

Terrii

Andreww!