The crew taking a moment to relax in our outdoor classroom. 

Teamwork!

It's the boys turn after Theresa and Luz and Shannon rolled this huge stump about 25 yeards, It was Angel, Clivens and Rickion, heave the final ho up the hill where it will serve as a table.

Welcome GROW CREW to the First Week!

Clivens, Clifford and Theresa (left to right) work to clear brush and trees for a new outdoor classroom area. This was our first week with the new GROW crew and it looks like it is going to be a busy and rewarding season!

Thumbs Up from Moylan Masterminds

Honey, Aldwin and Jercia planted cosmos, Tithonia, marigolds, nicotiana, sweet annie and zinnias in front of the garden. They are helping to make this areas flower-full for the farmers market this summer. This is the second week for these kids and I am looking forward to two more awesome weeks in the garden with them. These students are worm crazy! We also planted spinach and beans!

"I've never been dirty before and I love it"

These are words will echo in my head for a long time. New and enthusiastic gardener Roberto (here with the mile-long smile!) shouted this out last week after weeding the bed that we planted seeds into this week. Here they, Roberto, Edward, and Nancy from Moylan Masterminds, are planting flowers for the garden.

Muddy hands and knees 

Mud, Mud and More Mud!

Moylan Elementary School Students good and muddied after a day at GROW It is definatly spring here in Hartford and the GROW season is underway. GROW Hartford has partenerd with the Molyan Elementary School Masterminds, an afterschool program, for the next month. These fourth graders will be comming every week to help out in the garden and discover that their favorite foods, everything from fried Okra to ice cream comes from the earth. We had a blast on Friday planting tomatoes and weeding. It was really muddy in the garden from the latest deluge, but that didn't stop these students from digging up worms and trying to catch the spiders scurrying acros the plastic mulch. While they learned that tomatoes will grow fruits just like the ones in the stores, I learned that a muddy flooded garden is not a problem at all... -Shannon