Extended/Daily Harvesting and Community Stewardship

I am so excited about these milk jug mini-greenhouses! I'm going to make a million of them and get a real headstart on the growing season... as soon as I can find a million clear jugs.  Make sure you place yours outside where it can get rain. For more info on the milk jug greenhouse and transplanting:

http://www.agardenforthehouse.com/category/gardening/winter-sowing/

I remembered after class that lettuce can be transplanted, so no worries. I did an internship at an organic CSA in Woodinville, and they transplanted almost everything there.

If you were interested in looking into the book I brought on year-round vertical hydroponics, it is called "4 Foot Farm Blueprint" and may be available through the library.

In Alas, Babylon, did you notice that those who thrived and found their reason to live/sense of purpose did so through noticing a need and giving service to their community? And speaking of Community Stewardship, a few years back a 9 year old girl grew a 40 lb. cabbage and decided to donate it to a soup kitchen where it fed almost 300 people! She was then inspired to start several gardens to donate food and start an organization. This has grown to the point where they now accept money donations and award grants for people ages 9-16 to start gardens to donate food in their local community.  http://www.katieskrops.com/ . If you are interested, they accept grant applications Oct 1- Dec 1. You could put that on your calendar for this fall.
What needs do you see in your community that you could fulfill?

This coming week:

A. Habits:

• Core Book Studies
• Math Lessons
• Write daily in Log Book
• Garden

B. Other:

• previously unfinished books
• Farmer Boy book discussion in 3 weeks
• field trip next Thursday, have lunch and outdoor clothing at 12 on the front steps
• signed Field Trip permission slip (attached I hope, if not I'll try to email it)

Miscellaneous:

free 30 day trial of garden planners (it looks like the same planner to me):
http://gardenplanner.territorialseed.com/
http://gardenplanner.motherearthnews.com/

plant hardiness zone by zip code

http://planthardiness.ars.usda.gov/PHZMWeb/