What's Happening At Hindley?

We had a great session yesterday with another 5^th grade class.  We planted mesclun seeds.  First we talked about them, fun and interesting facts, then the kids went into the garden  where we had three stations:  planting the mesclun; the “perfumery”—where they  learned about the herbs like lemon verbena, scented geranium and patchouli, and the kids rubbed the leaves on their wrists for perfume and cologne; and finally “what went wrong here”, where we took some collard greens bought from the store and compared them with two collards that got infested with cabbage worms.  Taught them a little about organic farming, and ways to control pests, that sort of thing.  We finally ended up the session with a “jalapeno challenge”, where we cut up bell peppers and then jalapeno peppers and those brave enough to try them did, and learned about the difference in heat between peppers and how they are measured by scoville units.  It was a great day!