Volunteer

Before Students Arrive

• Pick ONE level (lower, upper, main, along outside fence) that needs water

• Gather supplies: watering cans

• Fill water trough with hose 

With Students

• Demo! "Dip, Tip, Only Tiny Sips.  Keep hands on handle and spout."

• Colors: Red cans = use on lower level; Blue cans = use on main level

• Line up (2 at time max getting water)

• Redirect any water dumping, throwing, running

Clean Up

• Empty water trough

• Wind hose neatly and put into hose pot

• Put watering cans away back into greenhouse (helps them last)

Before Students Arrive

• Gather supplies: 2 trash bags/liners, 2 pails, gloves

With Students

• Demo "Quiet voice, gentle fingers"

• Flip over board and gently pull off snail/slugs, replace flat.

• Tour the garden together (look under trees, around beds, on artichokes)

Clean Up

• Seal bags and discard in trash (or drop off a friends who raises chickens)

• Put buckets back in shed

Before Students Arrive

• Gather supplies: hula hoes, gloves, large and small buckets

With Students

• Demo "Pull the hoe towards you, scrape the weed top off, stomp"

• Have students work with a partner and share the small bucket

• Remember to recompact (step on) the soil in the weeded area after

Clean Up

• Students empty small buckets of weeds into large bucket

• Students clean their tool in sand pots

• Empty large bucket of weeds in green waste at top of garden (don't compost)

• Put buckets back behind shed and tools away clean

Before Students Arrive

• Check raking station:  1 rake per student, large buckets 1 per 3 students

With Students

• Demo! "rake into a pile 4-5 times, gather with hands, put in bucket"

• Have students work in groups of 3 to fill their entire large bucket

Clean Up

• Students put rakes away neatly against logs or on hooks

• In one group (all together) carry and empty black buckets into green waste bin

Before Students Arrive

• Bring down gloves, 2-3 wheelbarrows or large trash bins and small buckets

With Students

• Demo! "twist and pull off dead, yellow, brown or leaves touching group

• Have students work in groups of 4 in different zones to fill a wheel barrow 

Clean Up

• In one group (all together) empty wheelbarrows/bins into green waste bin

• Park wheelbarrows  HANDLES up in wheelbarrow parking area (this prevents them from collecting standing water)

• Return all supplies to shed and have students clip pairs of gloves into board

Before Students Arrive

• Fill at least 8 sprayers with clean water, gather rags from shed

With Students

• Demo! "point sprayer down, mist the plants (no jets)"

• Remind students that young seedlings are fragile and don't need jet streams

• Students can dust the greenhouse tables and shelves with dustpans

Clean Up

• Have students empty sprayers into garden bed and put away loosely to dry

Before Students Arrive

• Bring large buckets and gloves out of shed for students to use

• Determine area that needs edging work

With Students

• Demo! "find and pull any plants growing over the edge and into path of travel"

Clean Up

• Arrange succulents onto trays by type to save or give away as cuttings

• Put away tools, empty green waste

Before Students Arrive

• Gather seeds, planting trays (6 packs or 72 cell trays), buckets/shovels for making seed starting mix, popsicle sticks, sharpie, clear plant displays

• Check supply levels for the seed starting recipe ingredients: 1/3 coco coir, 1/3 vermiculite, 1/3 compost, 2 cups of water

• Determine if you are doing new seeds, transplanting, thinning, or planting out

With Students

• Demo! "equal parts of ea ingredient, mix, fill, level, finger poke, seed, tap". 

• larger seeds are planted 1/4" deep, press pencil eraser into each cell, then add one seed into each depression, than cover with more soil, tap

• smaller seeds go right on top of the soil, then gently sprinkle light soil on top

• make sure to label a popsicle stick with variety and date for each tray

• Water lightly and place on racks under irrigation

Clean Up

• Sweep loose soil with dustpans and collect in soil bin

• Use clear displays for seed envelop so visitors can see full plant info