Our Wall Farm is Growing!

Did you know that in the cafeteria, we have a wall farm?  My 2nd and 3rd grade afterschool gardening class planted herbs, vegetables and even strawberries in October.  Two months later, they are looking great!  We actually harvested some of the lettuce for school lunches last week!

Parsley.

Basil.

Strawberry plants.

Romaine and green lettuce.

Dwarf peas.

Lettuce from our wall farm for lunch!

Our Wall Farm is Here and Growing!

After much anticipation, our Wall Farm is up and growing!  Through a grant from GrowNYC, PS58 has a Wall Farm that grows 51 plants in our school cafeteria. During gardening class with some of the second graders, we planted lettuce, chive, red basil, yellow peppers, chili peppers and cherry tomatoes.

The cork cover on the left is where the water is added.

These capsules hold the seed pods.

Once the wall farm is plugged in, the lights automatically turn on and off.  If anyone sees the light doing a "disco dance", they know that it's time to add more water to our wall farm!

Planting!

The bottom shelf is filling up!

 PS58 is excited for our plants to grow.

The dome over the pod helps keep the
moisture in.  Little lettuce sprouts!

5 Days later!

Once the leaves touch the dome, off it comes!

3 weeks later, our farm is really growing!

Tomatoes.

Red basil.

Chive.

Lettuce.

Yellow peppers.

Once the plants are big enough, they will either be planted in our school garden or be harvested for school lunches!