Extending Your Growing Season with Row Cover
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Extending Your Growing Season with Row Cover The growing season and the school year calendar don’t always align – so how can we extend growing into the…
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Tips for Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens over Summer
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Keeping Low-Maintenance Gardens Over Summer Step 1: Plant for Back to School Harvests & Lessons These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate but once…
Tips on Pruning Fruit Trees
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Pruning Fruit Trees Step 1: Remove Unwanted Growth Remove any dead, diseased and broken branches. Good plant hygiene best practice to prevent diseases spreading further and killing…
Children’s Books Celebrating Latine & Indigenous Cultures
Children’s Books Celebrating Latine & Indigenous Cultures The First Blade of Sweetgrass by Suzanne Greenlaw and Gabriel Frey is a story about a Wabanaki child learning her ancestral practices to…
Putting the Garden to Sleep for Winter
Emilia’s Garden Tips: Putting the Garden to Sleep for Winter Mulching & Cover Crops We highly recommend mulching and/or planting cover crops (living mulch!) to help manage soil erosion, increase…
How to Jump Start a School Garden
Emilia’s Garden Tips: How to Jump Start a School Garden What to Plant Now for Quick Harvests These crops need plenty of water at first to germinate and would appreciate…