By Kailie Aguilar, Student Blogger I am in second-grade Brownie Troop 1972. My troop painted pictures to decorate the water cistern in the TMA garden. Before we started painting, Mrs. Streichenberger called up a few girls to show an example of how to paint on the special paper. We took…
Nathan Richardson, a former TMA student, is working on earning the prestigious title of Eagle Scout. He’s 15 years old, a sophomore at Foothill High School and is still active in Boy Scout Troop 36. If you’re not familiar with scouting, becoming an Eagle Scout is not an easy task.…
Watering plants can be a chore but not in the TMA Garden. Recently, we added small cisterns throughout the garden. Made from donated plastic barrels, these overflow cisterns pull recycled rain water from the primary 500-gallon cistern via a hose. The kids can conveniently pump water from the overflow cisterns…
What’s red, sweet and makes yummy pies, jam and ice cream? Strawberries of course and they were just recently planted in our garden. In early November, Koppes Plants graciously donated 200 bareroot Chandler strawberry plants to the TMA Garden. Chandler strawberries are the typical strawberry that is sold at roadside…
Ryan Solomon, Guest Blogger From Ms. Mahar’s Third Grade Class I highly recommend going to the TMA garden because of all the wonderful sights like seeing all the plants and the growing develop. Last Thursday, when I went there with my teacher Ms. Mahar’s class, I enjoyed seeing all the…
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The rain didn’t keep the buyers away from our annual Dad’s and Donuts event. Due to the success of this event and produce sales, the garden sold a record amount of pumpkins and produce totalling more than $1,000. The proceeds will help fund PTO programs, such as Art Masters, John…
By Armen Balian, Guest Blogger and Dedicated Garden Volunteer Seriously!! Every time it rains, Tustin Unified saves money. Here’s how it works. Walk into the garden and look to the left; you’ll see a very large black tank, known as a rain cistern. Pipes run from it to newly installed…
By Ashley Spinoglio, Third Grader The garden work day a few weeks ago was very busy. We had 46 volunteers show up to help work in the garden for fall planting. Some of the jobs we did in the garden were pulling weeds, cutting pumpkins off the vines, cutting flowers,…
•September 2010 – Launch 2nd grade Vermicomposting/Soil Building (science standards) – Earthroots hired with $1200 CA Fertilizer award to train GMs/teachers to compost with worms $1200 includes training session for GMs and teachers at end of September and 1-2 guided class sessions. – Every Thursday a 2nd grade class collects…