We met again in the beginning of June to learn from our guest speaker, Lea Elliott, about principles that we can learn from the garden. We played a diversity game, while learning about families of plants, and how diversity increases the garden's resilience. We also dug up soil from a few spots in th

With our guest speaker Lea Elliot, we learned about three ecological principles: 1. Resource cycling: We sampled soil from different spots in the garden and did a worm count to appreciate how nutrients are cycled through the garden. 2. Diversity: We did a short interactive activity to learn that