Kaiser Garden

Thanks to all the volunteers who came out on the 20th to help with the Kaiser Gardens. We did a lot of weeding out in the fenced fruit garden on the back side of the school and nibble on a few blueberries that were ripe and then moved over to the garden beds by . . . → Read More: Clean and green in the garden

We’ve got a couple of upcoming work days planned for the Kaiser Garden. The first is coming quickly–Saturday April 21st from 9-3. This will be part of the Kaiser Alive book, students can earn Kaiser Alive points by participating, either from 9-12 or from 12-3. That Saturday also coincides with a number of Earth . . . → Read More: Garden Work Days and fruit getting ready

The warm weather has been incredibly kind to the Kaiser garden and the lettuce, chard, beets, greens and other goodies are growing like crazy. It’s time for some serious harvesting. Hopefully you’ll be hearing stories from your children about classes making salads, cooking greens or eating beets, but if not, talk to your classroom . . . → Read More: Spring 2012 in the Kaiser Garden

It’s the beginning of November so of course that means it’s tomato season! Actually it’s the end of tomato season and this Saturday and the Harvest Festival we’ll be pulling up all the tomato plants at Kaiser to get ready for Fall planting. If you like cherry tomatoes, green zebras or any other variety, . . . → Read More: Last chance for Kaiser Tomatoes and Kaiser Cider!

Kaiser corn has come and gone and the Cal Berkeley Project volunteers have as well and the site of huge stalks of corn filling the raised beds won’t be back till next year. There are a bunch of great pictures of kids shucking and eating corn from our corn-fest. We’ll post more pictures from . . . → Read More: Corn-fest and work day update

Attention Kaiser parents, students and friends. This Saturday, Oct. 15th, from 9-3 we’ll be having a garden work day here at Kaiser. We’ll be assisted by 30-40 volunteers from UC Berkeley who will be digging up weeds and old plants in the front, pulling out corn, getting beds ready for fall planting and helping . . . → Read More: Work Day – Oct. 15th from 9 – 3

I don’t have any new pictures to add, but the five beds filled with huge stalks of corn pretty much tells its own story. It’s a pretty dense planting, each bed has roughly 30 plants in it. Each plant can grow up to three ears on the main stalk and if the plant is . . . → Read More: Fall corn and upcoming work day October 15th

We had a garden work day on Saturday, August 20th and everything is getting ready for kids to show up next week. The corn is looking great, five beds this year, one is just tassling now, two others are getting close and two others are coming along. Pumpkins are starting to spread out, set . . . → Read More: Getting ready for school to start

After the first week of me not having things together, the garden sale on 6/10 went great. We sold lots of chard, beets, bok choi and green onions and sold a ton of plant starters as well as some mature blueberries, olalla berries and other goodies. We raised close to $200 for the Kaiser . . . → Read More: Garden sale results

This Friday, June 3rd and next Friday, June 10th we’ll be having a garden sale. We’ll be selling chard, beets, bok choi and anything else ready to harvest to take home and eat. We’ll also be selling lots of starters, plants ready to plant in your garden. We’ll have chard, peas, beans and for . . . → Read More: Garden sale – 6/3 and 6/10