At Pikeville Elementary School students have planted many Fall/Winter crops. These include: kale, lettuce, turnips, radishes, carrots, broccoli, cabbage, onions, peas, and lettuce. The Art Department is continuing the garden beautification process and the students are happy with the positive changes. The gourds that were planted last Spring are…Read More

The past few weeks have been busy with transplanting the lettuce, mache’, and brassica mix we started in the greenhouse. We have also gotten the pollinator garden well under way and the students are watering the perennials and transplants to get them off to a good start. The students have harvested the final kale for school salads this week and…Read More

We hosted a Falll/Winter garden workshop last Thursday, April 30. Here is the link if any of you are interested in learning how to implement the process at home or school.
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This week the students are still harvesting greens for school salad despite the fact that many of the plants are bolting and reaching maturity. The students are learning about pollination and how the plants produce seed. We will harvest seed pods when they mature, allow them to dry and collect seed for next year! There are flats of lettuce to…Read More

Attend the Greening Our Schools workshop this Saturday at Jenny Wiley Convention Center. The session will be one of many interesting sessions offered at the Growing Appalachia Conference. Register here!
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