This morning we volunteered in the rooftop garden at the Gary Comer Youth Center. We helped kids from the center explore the garden. The little kids had to find a flower, a sprout, a seedling, and a seed. The older kids had to draw different kinds of plants and then complete research about their plant. We helped the older kids find ripe strawberries to pick and eat.
The Gary Comer Youth Center rooftop garden grows herbs, flowers, vegetables and fruit. This summer, they are growing: pumpkins, lots of different kinds of peppers, popcorn, sunflowers, tomatoes, potatoes, sage, mint, lemon verbena, strawberries, cucumbers, beans, lettuce, and lots of grasses and flowers.
Here is some nice fresh lettuce growing in the garden. We might have had this lettuce in our salads for lunch today.
These are tiny little purple peppers. They are fiery hot!
Some strawberries in the garden are sweet and some are sour. It depends on how ripe they are.
Both of these peppers are green. Be careful, though, because the skinny one is called, "Ring of Fire!"
This butterfly was flying around the garden. He is a beautiful, yellow and black innocent butterfly.
Posted by Iysha and Sarah
I've never even seen a purple pepper!
ReplyDeleteHope you guys had a blast helping the younger kids at the garden. I'm sure they were super happy to have some awesome and cool kids there with them that day. Great work (and pics!).
You guys have such beautiful pictures! My favorite is definitely the one with the black and yellow butterfly perched on the leave. In addition to getting the chance to work in such a lovely garden, I'm sure it is also awesome to have free and healthy snacks at your disposal!
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