Some news from Buxton Gardens...
This year's Environmental Studies class is working on a big project to bring chickens back to Buxton. The students worked out an approved budget, planned a chicken-care program and scoped out a location for the coop. With the help of Mike and his crew, we moved the old Turkey Hutch from its location (in a swamp) near the theater to a spot closer to the center of campus. Here are a few video clips of the coop getting winched into position. (Note the dilapidated condition of the structure.)
The coop was in poor condition, so the class has been helping to fix it up and build an adjoining chicken run. Here are some photos of the process.
Meanwhile, the students in my Biology class are getting its hands dirty planting this year's organic garden. We started with seedlings planted indoors in the Bio Lab, and have recently moved some plants outside, betting against frost. Here is a video of the process involved in making the paper planters we manufactured ourselves.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B6oBD47zlWkThe past week has been super nice in the weather department, and so we've spent lots of time outside planting and weeding the garden. We've got corn and sunflowers in cold frames, peas and onions and a few cabbages planted, and some leggy beans that may or may not survive... only time will tell. Meanwhile, the inexorable, grinding, molecular process of photosynthesis drives the growth of our little plantlings.
(Pablo joined us on that day and sniffed up some dandelions)
