Students returned to the garden after our Winter Break to find the plants and animals healthy and growing, thanks to a bit of rain. Mushrooms are popping up all over our garden and we've set about trying to identify them and observe their growth. As you may know, mushrooms are the fruiting body of organisms called mycellia. These fungi are so helpful in our garden because they decompose wood and other organic matter, and exchange nutrients with our plants, making our ecosystem super heathy! If you see mushrooms poppin' up in your garden, it's a good sign that healthy soil on being created! Yay for fungi, the coolest organisms in any garden (my opinion)! Check out the YouTube videos of our very own time-lapse camera spying mushrooms.
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The days are short and the nights are long. The air is getting colder. It must be winter break! The good folks at ArboristNOW! dropped off a big pile of wood chips to spread around our garden, just in time for winter break. Our students spread that huge pile in less than three hours! We are leaving our cilantro, kale, and marigold seedlings in the greenhouse, hoping that they'll survive the break without the daily attention they get when school is in session. It's been a great year in the garden so far! See you in a couple of weeks!
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