doughnuts4moneycitysproutsgarden2011

 This is my first wiki and I will be writing all of my garden journals. They have the information about what we did every Tuesday in the garden; we had a different job every week, harvesting, composting, biologist and maintenance. My favorites were compost because we could play with decomposers and harvesting because we normally cooked but I didn't like being a bio logist because we didn't do a lot of activities.

GJ #1

Today at the garden being a harvester helped me learn new things like what a tomatillo was. I will always remember the big fat slug I saw and the sticky skin of the tomatillos, I will also remember the sound of the leaves moving with the wind. Also we picked basil that smelled really good.

My group (kmel617, zBori23floWz and I) had the job of harvesting. We picked basil and other herbs; we also picked tomatillos, tomatoes and a red pepper. After that we divided the things into paper bags for people to take home. GJ #2 Even though it was raining today, it was my first time in the compost. I saw a lot of decomposers moving aroundthe compost, and I even got to touch a slimy slug. The compost had a strong smell today. My group had to do the compost today. We looked at a ll the decomposers in the compost like snails, slugs, isopods and [|earth worms]. After that we also put the sunflowers that our classmates had cut into the compost and we had a lot of fun. GJ #3 Today was my first time planting lillies. The dirt had a wet feeling, and we were all working hard digging in it to get out the weeds which smelled funny. I could hear the harvesters making potatoes that tasted very good. My group's job was being the maintenance.We took out really big weeds and planted [|lillies] in the holes that were left. After that, we ate potatoes cooked for us by the harvesters.They were good.

GJ #4 Today was my first time being a biologist I saw a larva and I touched a worm. We ate polenta and it had a strong smell but w <span style="font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">hat was stronger was the taste of the tomatoes in it. The whole time all I could hear were kids talking.

<span style="background-color: #002aff; color: #ff0014; display: block; font-family: impact,charcoal,sans-serif; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;"><span style="background-color: #0000ff; font-family: Impact,Charcoal,sans-serif;">This week my group was the biologist group. We looked around the garden to fill our sheet, after that we helped people in the digging area. In the end we ate the polenta our friends made us.

<span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff00e2; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">GJ #5 <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff00e2; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">Today at the garden I made [|lemon balm] tea for the first time. It was warm and it tasted like lemons. I could smell the tea cooking and then I heardthe shriek of the teapot. <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff00e2; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">My group kmel617, zBori23floWz and I picked lemon balm and we had to separate all the leaves, after that we boiled water and put in the herbs. We wanted to put in more <span style="background-color: #000080; color: #ff00e2; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">sugar but Liz didn’t let us. I didn’t like the tea but freakyowl1 did.

__ GJ #6 __ __ Today at the garden I tried chives for the first time in my life. They had a strong taste and I could smell my breath, I could also smell the apples in the compost. In the background, I could hear kids having fun but what I could really feel were the rough gloves on my hands as I was digging in the compost. __

__ My group was working in the compost today. We dug in the bins filled with compost to move it up and down and mix it up. We also ate chives. We all got onion breath! After that we watched the make apple cider, but by then Science was over. It was good. __

<span style="background-color: #000000; color: #0000ff; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 190%;">GJ #7 <span style="background-color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 190%;">Today in the garden it was only km <span style="background-color: #000000; font-family: 'Courier New',Courier,monospace; font-size: 25px; line-height: 37px;">el617 and I. We put soil in a spot in the garden where there wasn't much soil,we found a lot of bugs including a spider that looked like a lobster and a big [|centipede]. <span style="color: #ff0000; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">**//GJ #8//** <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #00ff40; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 22pt;">This week my group were biologists. In the garden we sat down in the sun and completed a work sheet that Ms. Ferhani gave us, when we were done we walked around the garden observing plants and animals until the teachers told us to gather up around the circle. We ate the salad that the harvesters made us and then we hadto go to Social Studies. <span style="background-color: #ff00ff; color: #00ff40; font-family: 'Lucida Sans Unicode','Lucida Grande',sans-serif; font-size: 22pt;"> <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">GJ #9 <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">Today was our last day. We picked cards with our jobs writen on the back, I got harvester. We made hummus with sun chocke, olive oil, salt, lemon and sesame. We ate it with bread and our whole class tried it, I don't know if they liked it but I think it was okay. <span style="background-color: #00ffff; color: #404040; display: block; font-family: 'comic sans ms bold'; font-size: 22pt; text-align: left;">

<span style="background-color: #ab12ab; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22pt;">If you want to go to the citysprouts page press [|here]. <span style="background-color: #ab12ab; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22pt;">To learn more about our school click [|here]. <span style="background-color: #ab12ab; color: #00ffff; font-family: 'Comic Sans MS',cursive; font-size: 22pt;">To see my paragraph about cyclic causality click here.