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PPS Friends & Families - Can’t wait to see everyone at the Fall Festival tomorrow! The kiddos have been hard at work for something special for you!

I think we had almost every Providence PPS Sprout kiddo not only touch and smell, but also taste basil straight from our garden this last week!

We also continued our love of 🍉 with observing our own watermelon seedlings growing tiny melons already and then having this awesome fruit as a perfect summer time treat.

We continued to plant more seeds, harvest more garden treasure, and of course dig for

Thx for the sweetest bookmark from

loving me some & with

My amazing at Providence Preparatory School with the Westbury PPS Sprouts.

Children spent the morning learning all about cucumbers and having hands on experience helping with our first PPS Sprouts harvest, then enjoyed eating this healthy, summer snack right from the garden. 🥒 you would have been proud!

I can’t leave these gardens without cutting more for the teachers which made a lovely table scape by the end of the day.

Providence kickstarted the PPS Sprouts program last week with lessons and activities about Strawberries! We learned about the life cycle of a strawberry plant using literature with vintage photography and illustrations, life cycle photographs from our own strawberry plant, and the plant itself. Thanks @ensprout for the #strawberryplant 🍓 She’s loving her new home! The kiddos also helped create faux strawberries using stones to help keep those “pesky birds” from eating our real strawberries! We finished up the class with sensory nature play using seashells from my family’s recent trip to the outer banks and plant & flowers from the beautiful PPS grounds. #learningthroughplay #learningthroughnature #preschool #earlyeducation #getoutside #growyourownfood #kidswhogarden #grow #naturecraft #strawberry #schoolgarden

Westbury PPS Sprouts Providence Preparatory School getting in on the fun!

We learned about our rainbow color coordinated garden beds and their different types of gardens, placed the faux strawberries painted from our classmates to deter the local birds, inspected our growing cucumbers, and planted seeds for the following crops : pumpkins, watermelon, basil, beets, sunflowers and marigolds.

We finished up the class with sensory nature play digging for earthworms!

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Prep work for tomorrow’s Providence Preparatory School PPS Sprouts class! Looking forward to meeting the Westbury students this week! 🍓

The best kind of souvenirs to bring back for the kiddos (& me!)

thank you for our first official strawberry harvest here at home…

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens

how I woke up

seemed fitting

living my best life

timed my visit perfectly with the

exploring the cove

Ojai ~ plant life & natural textures

Ojai ~ around town

wild lupine on our hike

Too much to do and too little time! I haven’t had time to post all the amazing things happening in the school garden because its and we’ve been busy. Hoping to catch you up this week!



Huge thanks to…


ohare.7
& betaclub

Check out what’s happening with our MPTS garden 👩‍🌾

Going to miss my March blooms…

Amazing opportunity experienced last night!

Deepak Chopra, Pioneer in Integrative Medicine and Personal Transformation, Visits Queens | Queens University of Charlotte A sold-out crowd packed Sandra Levine Theatre at Queens University of Charlotte to spend an enlightening evening with Dr. Deepak Chopra, a leader in the meditation revolution. Chopra, a New York Times bestselling author and one of TIME magazine's “Top 100 Most Influential People,” helped guide ...

What’s already growing and what will be growing at

Aren’t these seed packets lovely? at

favorite pieces to display my blooms. both handcrafted. one new. one vintage.

Ikebana flower frog vase from Gayle Pritchard. is this you?

Pottery vase by

Amazing!

If you’ve never sprouted seeds inside milk jugs during the dead of winter, you don’t know what you’re missing! It is literally the easiest way to sprout seedlings. Check out ’s tutorials on how to winter sow your favorite seeds.

Winter Sowing Part 2

This winter I’ve been focused on helping our children’s school create their own garden and elevate their outdoor classroom space. Winter sowing has been a very cool, scientific, frugal and easy approach to start our garden.

Huge thanks to…
enSprout for the continual guidance for donated milk jugs
Blackhawk Hardware and .ohare.7 for supporting the cause and supplying us with amazing premium potting soil for our first plant babies!

and current winter sowing progress to follow!

to watch our and our spaces evolve!

Myers Park Traditional Elementary School

Kendall Rich on Instagram: "Winter Sowing Part 2 This winter I’ve been focused on helping our children’s school create their own garden and elevate their outdoor classroom space. Winter sowing has been a very cool, scientific, frugal and easy... 1 Likes, 0 Comments - Kendall Rich () on Instagram: "Winter Sowing Part 2 This winter I’ve been focused on helping our children’s school create ..."

This winter I’ve been focused on helping our children’s school create their own garden and elevate their outdoor classroom space. Winter sowing has been a very cool approach to start our garden. Thank you enSprout for the continual guidance on our process and for having the coolest barista and manager around helping us with donated milk jugs and much more (you’ll have to follow to see!).

to watch our and our spaces evolve!

to follow!

Myers Park Traditional Elementary School

Kendall Rich on Instagram: "This winter I’ve been focused on helping our children’s school create their own garden and elevate their outdoor classroom space. Winter sowing has been a very cool approach to start our garden. Thank you @ensprout for 9 Likes, 0 Comments - Kendall Rich () on Instagram: "This winter I’ve been focused on helping our children’s school create their own garden and el..."

thank you neighbors for sharing your local pecan harvest

Did you know the fuzzy nubs are flowers waiting to bloom? Read below to learn more from

“They're actually flowers just before they fully bloom. The soft coating of hairs acts as insulation to protect these early bloomers from cold temperatures. The species most commonly called p***y willow in the Northeast, Salix discolor, is a small, shrubby species of willow that can be found dotting wetlands and moist woods throughout much of North America. Most other willows make similar flowers, and since they’re among the very first to bloom, they’re especially delightful—they signal the last throes of winter and the brink of spring.

“Carolina Willow” ***ywillow

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