Fried Rice with Mustard Greens

Start with chopped onions, carrots, and spring onion tops

Saute them together for 3 minutes

Mix in the spices

Add cooked rice

And the chopped mustard greens...

Fried Rice with Mustard Greens!

Everyone gets a taste!

Compost Greens Needed

Our compost bin is in need of lots of greens to balance the brown leaves that are abundant and decompose slowly when our composting recipe is "unbalanced." If you have some clean apple peels or other non-smelly greens that are going in your trash can, put them in a Kroger bag (we can recycle it) and send them to school. We'll put them in our compost bin to make great soil for our garden.

Today's Blind-Taste-Test Experiment

Question: Which radish top soup, chicken or vegetarian garlic, will taste the best?

Hypothesis: The majority of Mrs. Sellers' seventh period science students believe the vegetarian garlic radish top soup will taste the best.

Materials: See Radish Top Soup Recipe, also small cups and permanent markers, and nine radish soup-loving participants

Procedure:

• See Recipe
• Put each finished soup in identical jars and label with identifying numbers #1 and #2
• Label small cups #1 and #2
• Pour a small amount of each soup into the labeled cup
• Taste each cup to see which one tastes better

Results:

• 8 students selected soup #1 as the best tasting soup. Observations included, "It tasted more salty, it tasted more buttery, and it tasted like garlic."
• 1 student selected soup #2 as the best tasting soup. Observation was, "this soup tasted sweeter."

Conclusion:

The vegetarian garlic radish top soup tasted the best. Although one participant thought the chicken radish top soup tasted better, stating it tasted sweeter, eight participants chose the vegetarian soup, saying it tasted more salty and buttery and that it also had a garlic taste. The hypothesis, that the vegetarian soup would taste better, was correct.

Soup Day

Check Out Our Radish Top Soup

With our first harvest of radishes we will make Radish Top Soup! This is great practice for the pre-AP students who are designing their own experiments. As we've said in class many times, cooking is the perfect example of an experiment. I predict this soup will taste great...
Mrs. Sellers

Big News! Critter Cages Coming Soon

We have been selected from applicants across the country to participate in a study of the above test model of a "Critter Cage," created by the Square Foot Gardening Foundation to keep out deer and other pesky critters. Although we have to pay for materials and shipping, we would not have been able to purchase these at full cost in the future, so this is great news. We'll be one of the first in the country to try out this new idea. See our letter of acceptance below:

Dear Glenvar Students- We would love to have you! We will have the critter cages delivered on Tues Oct 14th and ready to ship by the end of the week. What you are doing and have accomplished is exactly what we have been striving with great determination to teach to every schoolyard in America - with the hopes that the children take home the joy and experience and share it with their families, and in turn have a home garden.
Best Regards,
Victoria Boudman
Operations Manager
SFGF

New Vegetables

We planted yellow and white onions today.

Garden Update: 10-2-09

The last time we visited the garden, overall it was doing well. The cabbage has had some problems with bug holes, so we are trying to find a cure that will be healthy for the environment. Some of the pansies have dead flowers, so we are pulling them off. The recent rain has moistened the soil so we have not been watering the plants as much. Recently we have been making garden journals out of used paper, just using the unused side. Tons of materials are wasted because we use it unwisely, so to make a difference we can recycle!
Ryan D.

The beginning of October the garden has grown strong and weak. It is weak because of the wind and wire grass. The rain has given it strength for the plants to grow.
Sebastian H.

We miss you, Solyvien!

A video for Solyvien- in the blowing wind!