Eddy School Garden opens
Scarecrows protect the Eddy School Garden. GARY DOW/Boothbay Register
Kale in the school garden. Students harvested the lower leaves, and the school "cook" made kale chips for students to try at lunch last week. GARY DOW/Boothbay Register
One of the scarecrows in the garden. GARY DOW/Boothbay Register
Scarecrows protect the Eddy School Garden. GARY DOW/Boothbay Register
Kale in the school garden. Students harvested the lower leaves, and the school "cook" made kale chips for students to try at lunch last week. GARY DOW/Boothbay Register
One of the scarecrows in the garden. GARY DOW/Boothbay Register
There will be an open house at Edgecomb Eddy School this Saturday, Sept. 28 from 9 a.m. to noon, rain or shine.
Visit the Eddy School Garden, a registered garden and included in the Maine School Garden Network’s third annual School Garden Open House!
Enjoy self-guided tours of their fall garden, with season extension low-hoop house seeded with root vegetables and greens. There will be garlic planting demonstrations, information about their garden and school composting, and student garden displays. FARMS (Focus on Agriculture in Rural Maine Schools) will also have information available.
Their own birdhouse gourds, dried sunflower heads and garlic will be for sale. Enjoy complimentary apple cider and herbed popcorn under the tent! Master Gardener Volunteers will be on hand to help answer your gardening questions. Bring a folding chair and enjoy the view!
The Eddy School Garden started in 2008. Our objective with this garden, is to provide students with an outside hands-on learning experience growing and eating healthy foods. Students how to grow and care for a garden, composting lunch food and garden waste, while learning skills which are sometimes lost.
Second grade teacher, Dawn Gary and Master Gardener volunteer Becky Benton make it fun, stirring their creativity.
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