2012 Harvest 4-Health in Pictures

Fall, 2011

Green Tomato - How Cool is That?

Maybe not so Cool

MG Bill Dorman and Fall Scallions

Fresh Fall Radishes

Spring 2012

MG Janet Sharp Shows How to Pot Up the Tomato Seedlings the Class Started a few Weeks Earlier

They get the Hang of it

And Get to Take Them Home

Weeding is Lots of Fun!



Maybe not for Everyone



Peppers are in!



Squash, Cukes and Zukes



And the Tomatoes

Radishes Coming Up

Now Grow!

June, 2012

We Have Strawberries!

Look for Them Under the Leaves

Things HAVE Grown

Let's Plant Some Seeds for Fall

Carefully Place your Seeds

I Can Do It!

We All Can!

What the Heck is a 'Stolon'?

It's the Runner from the Mother Plant that Will Give Us Strawberries Next Year

Gotta Keep Weeding

We Dug up Some Fingerling Potatoes

September, 2012


Sampling Day - Taste What Was Grown
(Supplemented from MG Gardens)

MG Ruth Coe (And Professional Reading Teacher)
Fills in on a Rainy Day



Meanwhile, inspired by The Green Apple Day Day of Service, teachers, volunteers, and parents at Ben Chambers Elementary School, took on the challenge of cleaning up an abandoned garden for a 2013 planting:

Before

After

Mrs. Thomas’s 3^rd grade, pictured here with Barbara Aldrich from PSU Extension 4-H, Katie Kough and WWC from Wilson College, and some classroom moms, plan to use and maintain the garden for various projects and inspiration going forward…along with any of the classes at Ben Chambers. The strawberry patch was retained and the other 3 beds will be replanted with ????????? (They have ideas!)

Many thanks go to Barbara Aldrich, long time Penn State Extension 4-H Educator here in Franklin County, who went on to greener pastures at the U.S.D.A's Farm Service Agency in October, 2012.

Congratulations to the whole team:  Bill Dorman, Janet Sharp, Ruth Coe, Ray Eckhart, Charlie White, and Mike Kusko, with some side help from Sylvia Kremp and Colleen Johnson.