Melissa shows students how to gently harvest pea pods from the vines.
It’s that time in the garden when cool-weather plants are about to give up the ghost and are producing seeds. Some we eat, and some we save. This week students harvested snow peas for eating – a lovely yellow variety that was both prolific and easy to spot on the green vines.
Learning to spot a seed and separate it from the flower.
They also harvested calendula seeds from the dying flowers. Some of these will be planted in school gardens next fall. The cycle of life.
