Garinger Garden a Healthy Way For

UsJazmin Perez19 years oldArandas Jal. Mexico

I speak Spanish & English

I came to the us in 2013

Planting and watering in the garden

The student is feeling the soil while planting some plants and then to water them.

When we touch the soil in the garden serotonin levels increase and we can feel more relaxed.

We planted a variety of plants, fruits, and vegetables in the garden.

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Swiss chard is a good source of nutrients that can help us for a healthy life.

When the plant is ready we can eat it or we can take it home.

Students are preparing the soil to plant Swiss chard in the field.

Preparing the soil

We designed some garden beds and then we built them.

This is the garden bed model made with wood.

Here we are helping each other to build the garden bed.

Garden beds model

The plants can be divided by section depending on what the plant it is.

These are some of the garden beds that students made for the

plants

We can plant any vegetable we want to plant (tomatoes, lettuce, onions etc).

This vegetables that you can see over here were grown in the bed that we created. This Swiss chard is ready to eat.

This is the produce we have for the Fall

harvest

Here we harvested some different kinds of eggplant.

The students are creating signs for the plants.

These signs can help us to know what plant is growing and provide the care they need.

We put the corresponding name in different languages and then painted them.

Creating Signs for the plants

Here we are making a butternut squash soup.

Ms. Mabe teaches us how we can eat healthy with vegetables and fruits.

I really like to go to the garden because it makes me more relaxed, and I learn things that I don’t know before.

Ms. Mabe, the garden coordinator at Garinger High School, explains to us what we need to know to help the plants grow.

We can grow our own garden at home to eat more healthy without processed food.

She was talking about the fertilizer that helps the plants to not have bugs.

Worm TeaWorm tea is a liquid

concentrate of worm compost.

This can be used like an insecticide and help improve soil structure and plant health.

This was something different for us because we never touched this texture before.

Here we have four arches that help plants in the winter by covering them.

These are our newly planted beds.

We need to separate the plants because they need their own space to grow better.

In ConclusionAfter high school, I want to go to college and

be a pediatrician

My goals are to finish college, have a good job, and have a family. This year I learned a lot of things that helped me to have a better life and be a good person.