Kinder+Garden

= Kinder Garden =

= Fairy Forest *NEW* 2013 = = The Kinder Garden = Project: 1 herb garden, 2 vegetable plots Mission: farm to table, micro-lending, entrepreneurship, systems thinking, science of seeds Location: outside of the Kindergarten at the Jamison Playground Maintainance: maintained by the Kindergarten throughout the year and Camp Stuart and Summer Stars throughout the summer Water Supply : Rain Barrel
 * Engineering unit on designing houses for Fairies using only natural materials
 * Investigating and making a case for "fiction" or "non-fictional" status of fairies
 * Living in nature and identifying plants, trees, bugs, birds and wildlife in their natural setting
 * Developing a //love of place//
 * Growth in independence, cooperation, imagination, creativity, wise freedom and friendship

Community: outreach to parents and Stuart community through various "shops" serving the food grown in the garden


 * Minty Winty Ice Cream Shoppe
 * Christmas Cafe (sold .10 salads from garden, coffee and teas: $85.87 to [|Heifer Foundation] to purchase Bees and Trees)
 * Pop Shop (we grew popcorn and sold .10 bags: $20.00* to [| Pennies for Peace] )

Planning and Design: The Kinder Garden was founded in the Summer of 2008. It consists of three raised beds each 8x4 Pending projects: Need
 * compost
 * winterizing plans (the garden is still green throughout this whole winter)
 * formal science drawing journals
 * A-frame support for beans

Farm to Table Movie: Christmas Cafe: Farm to Table media type="custom" key="23041184"

Two seasons: Summer: plan for harvest at July Summer Star Salsa Winter: plant end of August harvest throughout season

[|Seed Savers Exchange] wants for 2011-2012 Fall '11
 * [|fingerling potatoes] (rec'vd)
 * Tom Thumb Popcorn
 * cucumber harvest- sell pickles
 * cilantro- summer salsa garden
 * french breakfast radish
 * herbs- medicinal- sell medicines, perfumes
 * Shake Shoppe: Summer Programs
 * onions
 * chamomile
 * lavender
 * peas
 * radish