Temple Beth Am Students Learn About Good Nutrition

Ethan Shapiro welcomes Ms. Koller's 4th grade class to Deering Bay

Membership Coordinator Daniella Tosta sets up our garden fresh tasting for the students

Our Garden Fresh Salad Bar is ready

The students talk about their experience at our November planting event

Ms. Koller encourages the students to try everything 

After the tasting, the students cast ballots for their favorite vegetable and favorite dip

Favorite vegetable was Roasted Golden Beets and favorite dip was Guacamole.  The pineapple was a huge hit and lemony sorrel was also popular 

The weather improved and the students walked up to the Garden, with a slight detour to look at Deering Bay resident American Crocodiles 

Ms. Koller's class heads back to school after collecting beneficial insects at the Garden. Thank you kids!  We had as much fun as you did!

Looking Back on a Great Season

Here are a few photos Tim took over the course of this year's season.  We're looking forward to hosting the Temple Beth Am Day School 4th Graders on Friday May 18th for their Harvest Celebration!

Enjoy!

End of the Season clean up begins

At Season's End

Our Garden season is all but over, in the next few weeks we will only see limited Garden items on the salad bar. We do have plenty of flowers and we will continue to use them in the restaurant. One of our members; a young man named Bruno Luchetti has been helping me 3 days a week picking flowers and tomatoes . Bruno likes learning about Organic Gardening and has been a great asset to our Garden project.

Spring time Flowers

The Garden flowers are is in full bloom right now. Our South Florida growing season will soon be over for the summer. Take the opportunity to visit our garden and salad bar before the season ends . The South Florida growing season begins in November and ends in mid April.

This seasons MVV's

This seasons " Most Valuable Vegetables" are; Sun Gold Tomatoes, Multi Colored Carrots, and Watermelon Radishes . Laura Decker, our Director of Membership is a frequent visitor to the garden and loves to pick tomatoes ! Next year we will plant these favorites along with some future "MVV's".

Spring means Butterflies

This weekend our clocks "Spring Forward" and with the 80 degree temp's it's definitely Spring time. Our Vegetable Garden is showing stress from the hot, dry and humid weather. However Spring also means Butterflies ! Today I noticed 8 Monarch Butterflies a few Painted Lady's and 2 Black Swallowtail's. Also if you look closely you can see Monarch Butterfly caterpillar's all over the Southern Milk weed.