Children who live on Skidaway Island and are between the ages of 5 and 12 are welcome to join us on Saturday Mornings out at Skidaway Farms. For more information, please contact Jane Kollmann at gardenher52@aol.com
What a fabulous harvest of vegetables for the kids! Which one will they eat first?
Watermelon seed spitting contest!
We love the new ‘jewelry’!
Harvesting and eating our first homegrown watermelon!
Looking to see what is ready to harvest…
This was a week of searching for vegetables…
Trying to find beans…
Looking For watermelon …
Can we find any tomatoes?
Where ARE those zucchini?
Quietly watching a bee at work…
Picking green beans from our beanstalk! Munching while we work! Yummy green beans!
Big harvest day at the farm!
Gotta look hard to spot the peas!
Digging for potatoes is fun!
Gotta look hard to find the squash!
We found TWO!
Look at this radish I grew!
Now you try cutting the artichoke
Getting ready for today’s fun!
Look at the carrots growing!
Need to pick all the weeds!
Are the carrots ready to harvest?
Patiently waiting to harvest onions…
Garden Fun! Look at our onions. We grew all these!
Drying onions for storage
Look at all my carrots!
Our bean plants are taller than we are!
Planting peanuts!! We have to wait until SEPTEMBER to harvest.
Let’s divide the harvest we gathered!
Pulling out the onion ‘twins’
Look at all the produce that we harvested with Farmer Jane today!
Let’s harvest some chard!
How many brussels sprouts can we spy?
I can’t wait to harvest this cabbage!
I spy some broccoli!
Beautiful rainbow chard!
Let’s see if the brussels sprouts are ready
Yum! Broccoli!
Let’s show Farmer Jane one of every type of vegetable we harvested today!
Tulip planting crewHave to warm the fingers before cutting chard!
It was a crisp morning!
Lovely kale bouquet
Dad helps to hold the onion harvest
We all take our turn at harvesting
Harvesting lovely rainbow chard
Lovely kale bouquets! Can’t wait for the kale chips !
Takes a little practice to get the scissors to work!
Bye bye Miss Holly Ween, see you next fall!:)
Enjoying a friends hug and our treat from Farmer Kevin!
Farmer Paul, can you smell how fresh this onion is!
Gee! The sun is bright ! Look at our lettuce bouquets!:)
In our discovery walk we found a monarch chrysalis!
Hurry up caterpillar! The Monarchs have to get to Mexico!
Planting some baby kale…
Hello baby lettuce!
We love our garden “jewelry”
More weeding teamwork!
First rainbow chard harvest for this little farmer!
We all had our turn in the chard harvest!
Enjoying our cupcake treat! Thank you Kate & Hanna!
Happy rainbow chard bouquets!
We had a visitor! Sharing with her what happens at our children’s garden
Jalapeño mustachePlanting a bit of”jewelry”
Ready set…lets plant onions!
Holding on to the tiny carrot seeds!
Pat pat the tiny seed into the soil!
Time for the lettuce harvest!
Our lettuce bouquets
Show and tell from Farmer Kevin! How do bananas grow?
Prepping to make our scarecrow
She is coming together!
Carry her carefully!
A bit of fun!
Hardworking crew!
It was raining and we got muddy. What a GREAT Saturday morning!
Rain can’t stop The Three Musketeers!
Washing our hands at the end is always a favorite.
It was a great year for our peanuts, which grew while we were on break!
A simple…heartfelt message from your fellow-Farmers on the Governance Committee: “Stay safe…and warm…and full of cheer as the 2012 season comes into […]
