HEAT Garden Update

As MHS students begin to prepare themselves for the months of winter ahead, the H.E.A.T. Garden must do the same. On October 18th, the ninth grade class joined Ms. Basdekis out at the garden during Horizons. Starting in the greenhouse, they prepared flower bulbs and garlic to be later planted in the soil. They then trekked out behind the soccer fields where they met the garden for the first time. Eager to cover their hands in the dirt, they started out by planting flower bulbs in the plot once set out for squash. The flowers will bloom in the spring when snow clears and MHS students go outside once again. Leeks were also pulled out of the ground and brought to the kitchen. Additionally, the ninth graders planted garlic bulbs to be harvested next summer. Garlic was the first vegetable planted in the H.E.A.T. Garden two years ago, and it will continue to be the first in the years to come.

Come spring, the ninth graders will work on generating a plan for the garden that would involve growing vegetables that would subsequently donated to a local food shelter. Ms. Basdekis had generated this idea as a way for dealing with the produce that is ready to be harvested when school is not in session during the summer months. This plan would not infringe on the produce brought into the school’s kitchen, rather it would give more direction and purpose to the garden as a whole.