What a harvest, as school began in the fall of 2018! Here's what we grew throughout the summer of 2018 and into October, in our productive and beautiful school gardens at CLCS: red raspberries, butternut squash, gourds, acorn squash, pattypan squash, Indian corn, onions, roma tomatoes, yellow pear tomatoes, purple and green basil, blue lake [...]
The CLCS Gardens grew abundantly this year, and we saw many pollinators in the garden, during the autumn of 2018. Some of the milkweed we planted last year survived, and we had monarch caterpillars feasting on the leaves! The mix of flowers was truly lovely. The children planted sunflowers, nasturtiums, marigolds, cleome, zinnias, echinacea and [...]
CLCS Family Gardening Club 2017 meets Tuesdays and Thursdays from 9-10:30 am, from July 6 through August 17, 2017, at the Covenant Love School Gardens! Families are invited to come together, no drop-offs please! Some possible projects for this summer are: watering & weeding the gardens, repairing the compost bins, building rock walls and pathways through [...]
There's a story behind every garden. "Keep your face to the sunshine, and you cannot see the shadow. It's what the sunflowers do." ~Helen Keller You could say that the CLCS Sunflower Garden came about providentially. An area of debris and shrubs was cleared next to the school playground in [...]
Why are pollinators important to us at CLCS? The pollinator population of an area is a good indicator of the overall health of that particular ecosystem. At CLCS, we are committed to stewarding our school property responsibly.This means taking care of the many diverse species of plants and animals that God has blessed us [...]
“The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him there." ~George Bernard Shaw In the spring of 2016, we installed three raised bed gardens at the “Hardesty House,” a building with three apartments, adjacent to the school property. This is a great location for a food and flower [...]
