Phyte Club will meet Mondays from 3:15-4:15 starting January 12
No Phyte Club on February 16-- Happy President's Day!
Pollinator Pathway Party @ The Griswold Center March 22, 1-3 pm
Green on the Green May 9, 9-noon
The Linworth School Community Garden is a living laboratory and community service organization located on the Linworth Alternative School campus in Worthington, Ohio. Our mission is to support the Linworth Experiential Program and the Worthington community by providing hands-on opportunities to learn about agricultural, ecological, entrepreneurial, and wellness concepts. In addition, we provide a setting for students to develop soft skills in the areas of leadership, confidence, perseverance, community building, and personal responsibility.
Phyte Club Mission Statement: Phyte Club is an ongoing community service project carried out by students at Linworth EP High School to raise fresh food for the Worthington Resource Pantry, explore sustainable land stewardship practices, and to develop health and wellness in ourselves and our community.
Phyte Club is our student group that meets after school on Mondays from 3:15-4:15. Anyone who wants to volunteer is welcome to come at that time. We plant and maintain the gardens, plan and implement fundraisers, collect and donate food, and much, much more! Meet in the Big Room after school if you want to join in!
The garden always has items it needs. If you would like to donate an item, please click on the Amazon Wish List button on the right and make our wish come true! Thank you!!!!
It was a great week in the garden this week! We potted up out kale, started some native plants and flowers, and did some garden clean up. Next time, we will continue cleaning up the urban agriculture area, attempt to install the gateway arbor in the food forest, and start many native plants.
It was a great week in the garden this week! We started doing our prep work for our Interim Glow Up, cleaning out the urban agriculture area and planning out several projects. In addition, we helped out teen eco-summit by working on transforming our post consumer plastic into strands that we can spin into yarn. Next week, we will try to do some more preparation in the urban agriculture area if the weather lets us, but we will focus on potting up our kale seedlings and starting some other seeds. 8 weeks to last frost!
It was a great week in the garden last week! Phyte club had a great business meeting, finished our winter sowing and cold moist stratifying, and got our chamomile and kale started under grow lights next to our sprouting spinach. We won't meet on the 16th due to President's Day, but will start back on Feb 23rd. Hope to see you there!
It was a cold week in the garden last week! Phyte Club has missed a couple of weeks due to holidays and snow days, but we got back in the swing of things with a business meeting last week. We also started some spinach under grow lights. Next week, we will continue our business and planning meeting this week as well as wrapping up our winter sowing projects, and starting our peppers. Even though it is 12 weeks from our average last frost date, we are already preparing for our annual native plant sale. Please check out the Native Plant Projects page on our website (linworthschoolcommunitygarden.org) for more information.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club started our Winter Sowing Project, where we create pocket gardens with native plants that will be up and growing by spring. Pocket gardens, along with individual native plants will be available in May. We also snacked on some great salad made with the lettuce from the aquaponic system students made last semester. We won't meet on January 19th, but will meet again on the 26th, when we will continue with winter sowing along with starting our spinach and pepper seeds and announcing our new look for the agricultural area.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club contributed to Linworth's Annual Chili Supper by making chili and decorating cut out cookies. Next week, we will work on using some herbs from the garden for holiday crafts, setting up some shelving in the shed, and working on our grant application for next year. We will also start compiling our end of the year report, so if you have pictures or anecdotes that you want to make sure we include, please email the garden: linworthgarden@gmail.com.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club did some garden clean up and raked leaves. We continued our planning meeting, and we had our Garlic Bread date-- eating ten loaves of garlic bread made with the garlic we grew in the garden. Next week, we will prepare for chili supper by making chili and baking cookies.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club got the rest of the carrots, sweet potatoes and other lingering produce out of the garden. We also discussed our priorities and started making plans for next year. And we wrapped up our Beyond Backyards grant with Franklin County Soil and Water. Our Food Forest is complete for now. Next week, we will continue to talk about those plans as well as continue garden clean up as weather permits.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club did not meet last week, but Treehuggers got the raspberries installed in the food forest during class, and Teen Eco-Summit met to work on project ideas. Next week, we will harvest all the sweet potatoes, carrots and onions that we can despite the cold. We will also spend some time indoors making plans for our winter activities.
It was a great week in the garden this week! We cleaned out the shed, harvested some late crops, processed garlic and seeds, and got the sunchokes tucked into their new home. We held our annual Plant your Pumpkin event at the Worthington Farmers Market and added some new members to the Phyte Club Team.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Treehuggers installed the orchard portion of the native food forest-- including persimmon, pawpaw and elderberry, among others. They will add raspberries next week before that area settles down for winter. Phyte Club got all of the garlic planted and installed the row covers on two of the beds. Next week, we will harvest sweet potatoes and onions, start some radishes under the row covers and clean out the shed in preparation for the winter.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Treehuggers finished building our fence-- though there are a few finishing touches to put on the gates. We finished adding soil to the border bed, got the garlic sorted, cleaned up the pathways and flattened the ground for the new sunflower bed. Next week will be a heavy planting week, with food forest installation and garlic planting, as well as getting the row covers up over the winter crops.
