The Final Harvest
Our Farm Tubs With the forecast of the first big snow of the year, and subzero temperatures, the children needed to rescue whatever foods were ready to be picked from our Farm Tubs. We discovered hidden cucumbers that had been […]
Children’s Garden
The Sandbox
A great big thank you to German Gutierrez of G&G Sprinkler Systems who donated 6,000 lbs of sand to fill our sandbox to the brim. German has had 2 children be part of our preschool, and both sons helped him with […]
The Apple Tree part 2
Our Heirloom Apple Tree After writing about our wonderful apple tree from which we made 25 gallons of apple sauce this year, a past teacher let us know about a project through Colorado University. The Boulder Apple Tree Project were looking […]
Pump System
11 children joined the building crew to assemble a pump system for water. The “Pump Works System” from Kodo Kids https://kodokids.com/pump-works arrived today with all the components and the crew needed to follow the instructions to make a functional system. Setting […]
Winter Planting in the Garden of Children’s House
Our New Garden Thanks to a grant from the City of Boulder Health Equity Fund, Children’s House was able to begin on its project of bringing vegetable growing to our front door. Despite having very little space around our property, […]
The Planting
On Wednesday April 6th after school, families joined us for the first seed planting in our new garden. Lauren (Brian’s Mom) and Elaine worked with the children to sort out all of the different types of seeds, and get them […]
Creating Children’s Garden
March 12th – Day 2 Once we had the ground weeded and leveled, and our fence fixed, it was time to put in irrigation, make our raised garden beds, and mulch around the outside of our lot as well as […]
Children’s Garden The Beginning
March 5th -Day One After years of working on a way to bring gardening to our school, we finally worked out that we needed to take the school to the garden. We rented a plot at the Boulder Community Gardens […]