Phyte Club moves back to Mondays, starting August 31, from 3:15-4:15! Mark your calendars!
September 10- Annual Board Meeting, 7:00 p.m. on Zoom- email the garden for the link.
September 13-- Worthington Garden Tour-- More info. soon!
October 10- BioBlitz at the Olentangy Parklands
November 8- Plant Your Pumpkin, Worthington Farmers Market 9 a.m.- 12:00 p.m.
The Linworth School Community Garden is a living laboratory and community service organization located at the Linworth Experiential Program 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 the Linworth Experiential Program 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!
People keep asking what all is happening at the garden and why we are all running around like crazy. So, here it is, the current list of Linworth School Community Garden Projects:
Sawfly Larva Composting with OSU
Tomato Research with OSU
BioBlitz with the Worthington Green Team
Native Garden Tour with the Worthington Green Team
Native Plant Projects (Winter Sowing, Book Club, Plant Your Pumpkin, Native Plant Sale) with the Worthington Green Team, sponsored by The Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington
Art on the Edge
Phyte Bites, sponsored The Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington
Urban Agriculture and Food Security with the Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington
Teen Eco- Summit with the Columbus Zoo
In Development:
Linworth Garden Walking Tour with the Worthington Green Team
3rd Space Creation with HOPELaB, sponsored by The Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington
Labyrinth Development, sponsored by The Harding-Buller Foundation of Worthington
It was a great week in the garden this week! We made great progress in the herb garden, planted and protected our corn and cucumbers, got the tomato beds ready for planting in mid-May, revamped the vermicompost, installed the strawberry towers and rescued our native plants from drowning in the rains. Next week, we will clean up the labyrinth, trouble shoot the irrigation system and maybe even plant some beans.
It was a great week in the garden this week! Phyte Club got a lot of weeding done, continued working on pathways, rescued many native seedlings, and much more. Earth Day activities included planting lettuces, chamomile and lavender, remaking one of the garden beds, and making major progress on the fruit area. The Teen Eco Summit group wowed everyone at the Zoo with their progress on recycling plastic into yarn. And Olive Wojonowski led a citizen scientist Bioblitz with iNaturalist in conjunction with the Worthington Green Team. Next week, we will finish the strawberry tower construction and plant the strawberries, organize and plant in the herb garden, plant the corn and cucumbers, and finish the irrigation system.
It was a great week in the garden this week! The heroes of Phyte Club moved 100 bags of mulch, as well as rebuilding the Fruit Area fencing, finishing the potato tower, and getting a lot of work done on our pathways. Next week, we will focus on irrigation systems. native plants, and finishing the pathway work.
It was a great week in the garden this week! We worked on rebuilding the paths in our new garden bed, potted up some native plants that are growing fast, built a potato tower, built some pea trellises, worked on our plastic recycling project and added some pizzazz to our fairy garden. Next week, we will do more work on our paths, develop our beds, tend to our peas and kale, and pot up a bunch more native plants
It was a great week in the garden this week! We did some major garden clean up, put up a trellis gateway in the food forest, and started many native plants. Next time, we will do whatever prep work we can do to get ready for our Interim Garden Glow Up and try to keep all our new seedlings alive!
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.
