Huerta Escolar

For the past two years I’ve been working with my school contact, Profe Vilma, to teach a gardening class. My first year I was assisting, this year I was the Profe.

Starting in April we spent the first classes prepping the area, making new fences, and adding fertilizer. Then we moved on to planting vegetables, trees and native flowers, transplanting them, learning companion planting, weeding, homemade insecticides, making aboneras, it goes on and on. Despite just teaching one day a week I found this project to be one of the most stressful as I was spending so much time reading up on gardening, while maintaining the garden, and preparing classes.

Capilla Cue Eucalyptus Trees — *Eucalyptus Trees Sprouting*

Huerta Escolar Insect Trap — *Insect trap made from a recycled bottle*s

The end goal was of course to harvest the plants and enjoy them. When the carrots were in season we made carrot cake. When the lettuce and tomatoes were ready we made Paraguayan salad. When the trees were big enough we gave them away to be planted. And now that its September its radish season and so we’ve decided to make radish sandwiches.