Filbert Street Community Garden Hosting Work Day!

On Saturday August 27th, from 10am to noon, Filbert Street Community Garden (1317 Filbert Street, 21226) will be hosting some volunteers from the Parks and People Foundation to help us finish our Guided Nature Trail.  Come out for a bit on Saturday morning to show your support for the garden and the community of Brooklyn/Curtis Bay.

The Child First Authority After-School Garden Club wrote, directed and produced 

"Dr. Rotface":  a film about composting

The Garden Club students wanted to create a movie which illustrated the benefits of composting.  They brainstormed and storyboarded the script for an elite crew living on the "Green Submarine"- the worlds first compost-powered sub.  Dr. Rotface escapes from his confinement cell and steals the compost for himself.  The crew tricks him into trying to compost items that don't belong in compost, and he is drained of his power.  Congratulations to all of the Curtis Bay Elementary Middle students involved.

Curtis Bay Class is Doing Some Serious Gardening!

Mr.s Dallas' class has been participating in the Filbert Street Garden's "Spring Garden Curriculum",  a series of lessons designed to introduce teachers and students to the resources offered by their community garden.  They have learned to read a planting calendar:

Started seedlings indoors:

and done some amazing work out in the garden- preparing their plot, planting beets and chard, working on pathways, and weeding.