Category: Garden

Cascadia Garden Blog

We’re starting virtual gardening lessons at Cascadia!

Until we can get back into the garden as a community, the garden teacher, Ms. Nicole is making videos highlighting a different theme and giving a new project each week. For the first lesson, 3rd graders will learn about invertebrates in the soil. They will discover the …

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Seedlings Safe!

3rd-grade gardeners will be relieved to hear that Ms. Nicole, garden educator extraordinaire, swung by school last week before it closed and rescued all the seedings in the 3rd grade pod! Most of them are now safely at her house, where she will care for them while we’re away from school. Whew!

Looking for …

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Earth Day Service Project

Love Licton and Cascadia are partnering to host an Earth Day Service project on April 4th, 10am-1pm. Improve tree health, increase sight lines to reduce hideouts, remove invasive ivy and grass, and prepare a new area for UW Capstone students to come in and plant native species.   Please RSVP and sign up to bring …

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Big Fall Festival of Groundskeeping!

Come Weed With Me, The Best Is Yet To Be

Who: Cascadia friends, family, neighbors. Kids welcome! (I bet they’d love to help and/or play on the playground — no supervision provided) What: pull weeds and spread mulch When: Saturday, November 16, 9am to 2pm Where: The school grounds (specifically: the beds in the …

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Garden Zucchini Fun!

The Cascadia PTA sponsors garden programming for third grade students.  Currently, the summer crop of vegetables are coming in, including scarlet runner beans, pumpkins, and a bumper zucchini crop.  One rising fourth grader proposed some summer Zucchini Math practice. Come taste some zucchini bread and see the garden space during our back to …

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