McDonogh was founded over 135 years ago as a farm school. McDonogh Roots aims to bring farming back to the school in a big way. Stay tuned!
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McDonogh Roots Please join us for the return of the apple orchard! Planting of 50 trees takes place on Tuesday Dec 8th, 8:45am – 12pm starting with Orchard 1, East of Jane Bay Hall up the hill from where the bee hives are & where the original apple orchard was. Orchard 2 is next to the Roots garden. Bring friends & family and bring... a shovel and work gloves if you have them.
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Check out the Heinz Wholesome Memories Intergenerational Garden Award - giving away 57 awards to families which include an adult and a preschool to high school family member who want to garden together! $500 package (great stuff!) and the deadline for applying is January 10, 2010 - check out the following link for details:
http://www.kidsgardening.org/grants/hein
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McDonogh Roots It's exciting to see the message spreading that gardening is great.
Michelle Obama To Launch Sesame Street With Gardening Tips « ecorazzi.com :: the latest in green gos
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Michelle Obama is set to visit Sesame Street yet again! Earlier this year, the First Lady appeared in a PSA with Elmo promoting healthy living. Now, drawing on experiences at home in the White House garden, ...
McDonogh Roots Pre-first students also painted pumpkins!
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The PreFirst class painted pumpkin characters to represent the points on the McDonogh Moral Compass. The names of the characters are Kind Kate, Responsible Ray, Honest Hank and Respectful Rose. The children ...
McDonogh Roots Photos here of the LS class pumpkins from the Roots Harvest, in their character paint.
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Using the pumpkins they harvested in the ROOTS garden, many classes created pumpkin characters from their favorite books. Can you identify them all?
McDonogh Roots 3000 pounds of potatoes!
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The first-ever McDonogh Roots potato harvest went off on September 19, 2009. More than 100 people showed up to help pluck the potatoes from the soil and bag them for storage. Some of the potatoes will ...
McDonogh Roots Sorry to say that a major water main break in Dundalk has pulled the TV coverage away from Roots for tomorrow morning, but please come to help harvest potatoes from 9 to 11 a.m.!
McDonogh Roots Roots made it to page 3 of today's Baltimore Sun!
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Riley Bakewell (above), a fifth-grader at the McDonogh School in Owings Mills, carries a pumpkin from Roots, the school's new vegetable garden. (Baltimore Sun photo by Barbara Haddock Taylor / September 9, 2009)
McDonogh Roots Potato harvest rescheduled for next Saturday, September 19, from 9 to 11 a.m.
McDonogh Roots McDonogh's potato harvest is rained out for the weekend, but watch the Roots blog or this space for updates - we'll be harvesting next week on a weekday, most likely.
Cheri Gaver Poklemba I just found this site and it brings back many memories of QD and Mary Thompson and their huge gardens as well as lessons to our new and growing family. I will have to see if i can "dig up" some photos of the gardens in the 70's -80's...i recall one of Cap sitting in a mud puddle while dad and mom harvested their crop.... It was here that I learned to can our harvest as I still do to this day...good memories and i am proud of those that have decided to rekindle the farming spirit that is so much of part of who McDonogh was...
McDonogh Roots Check out the tomatoes, sunflowers, corn, pumpkins, and other produce growing in the garden with pictures taken by Joan Newcomer yesterday!
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McDonogh Roots Tomatoes, tomatoes, tomatoes - please come & pick - take some for yourself, some to bring to the cafeteria, and some to give away to a soup kitchen or shelter!
McDonogh Roots Looking for a donation of a wheelbarrow and/or weedwacker - thanks!
