Another photo from the Food Forest...

We smothered the weeds (knotweed is particularly invasive) with compost and cardboard. The cardboard will break down and eventually be part of the soil. On top of this, we added soil -- we will soon be ready to plant!

Urban Gardens

Urban gardens are improtant becuase they are a nice thing to have around. They also help around the commuity gardens is a place kids can be instead of playing out in the streets. It would be a great place for kids to learn new things and helping around their commuity. Gardens also make a nice place because they can take over where there are empty lots at. Another reason why i think gardens are improtant becuase it puts food in the world too. Without gardens where else would peolpe get food from gardens is a good help around the world.

Tuesday Night's Poem By Elonda:

When it rains it pours,

the flowers cry out for more,

its really amazing how the rain sounds,

knowing that the grass quenches it thirst when it hits the ground,

so it finally stops raining and the sun comes out,

the first sunflower begins to sprout,

the first sight of sprouting make me breathless,

it makes me think that growing them is bonus,

over the course of days it grows,

it makes my neighborhood look more than ghetto,

the words im searching for beauty, peaceful, colorful, nope i think serenity,

it makes me think that im mostly in my own dream world...

There are alot of benefits Green Urban Spaces can provied. You can save money by growing food in your own backyard. For example strawberries are being grown in our garden. When im in need of delicious strawberries instead of going to giant eagles and spending a fortune on a pack of fresh strawberries i can go to the graden to pick my own grown strawberries. Another way this garden is benefical is that it beutifies the neighborhood. It really makes a difference. Maybe one day someone will stop pass in want to take a picture there, they probaly woundn't if it was just another abandon lot. This garden also benifits local residents in a recreational way. In the garden you can exersise, preform thereapy and even educate others.

Chocolate Covered Strawberries

So we are going to prepare chocolate covered strawberries from our urban garden called Lombard but there not rippend yet.

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Ready In: 15 minutes

Ingredients
16 ounces chocolate chips
2 tablespoons shortening
1 pound fresh strawberries with leaves

Directions
1. Insert toothpicks in top of strawberries.
2. In a double boiler, melt the chocolate and shortening , stirring occasionally until smooth. Holding them by toothpicks, dip the strawberries into the chocolate mixture.
3. Turn the strawberries upside down and insert the the toothpick into stryofoam for the chocolate to cool.

Stepping Stones!

This is wakka from SCA im writing about the stepping stones. This was a very fun project we did. There was several steps to making the stepping stones. And there was different reasons why we did it too. There were four steps in this progress.

• Making the cement.



• Picking out what we wanted in them.



• Placing them in the cement.



• Finally letting it set.
  

There were different resons why we made stepping stones. The main reason we made it was to make a stepping stone walkway in the garden. That will make our garden beautiful. It was very creative. So there will be a piece of all of us in the garden.

working hard is the way

There i go working hard. Working as hard as i can. I say this is the way peolpe just dont understand. green everwhere you stand. look around listen to the sound. Take a stand around your town. Nature is a place nature is a thing nature is a love for peolpe who really understand. Green this way green my way one line that i really love to say. I can help i can see nature is liveing can you see. Time flys wind rides by still a way that natures around. look in the sky tell me whats high as you look tell me what shines. As you look look at the sky time slows down as the sun rise.