Press Release for The Garden Project at Boxberry School

 

            Students at The Boxberry School are studying agriculture, planting and seed saving. Boxberry received a grant from Maine Community Foundation. The kids in the Periwinkle room (grades 3 through 5) are also making zines (mini magazines) to raise awareness and to give information about gardening. Emmett Grover is making a zine about seed saving. Sophie List is making one about biodiversity. Myles Barrett is making a zine about worm composting.

            All Boxberry students will be attending the Norway farmers market, behind Fare Share Co-op, every week on Thursdays starting on May 24^th.  They will be selling seeds and seedlings. Boxberry students will have a large selection of vegetable, herb and flower seedlings available at the market. The seed packets were hand-printed with linoleum blocks carved by students in grades 3 through 5. Boxberry bought a bulk order of several varieties of heirloom and unique seeds from Fedco Seed Company.  Students sorted and weighed out the seeds into their hand-printed packets. Students will also be selling batiked hand-made garden flags and garden prints.

            Boxberry students will plant some bean seeds and vegetable/flower seedlings at Carter’s Farm in Oxford. The plants will be harvested in late summer. Next fall students will use the techniques Scott Vlaun (of Moose Pond Arts & Ecology) showed them this past year for seed saving the vegetables and flowers they will harvest. Boxberry students plan on using these seeds for their garden project again next year.  Written by Sophie List (grade 5)