The Orca K-8 School Garden Blog!

We are back! Fully stocked and set up for a digital sale! We have an incredible selection of tomatoes (25+ varieties! Heirlooms, slicers, saucers, & cherries), veggie starts, native plants, perennials, annuals, Fruit bushes, trees, and more! We are very excited for our sale this year! All proceeds benefit the Orca K-8 PTSA & the school garden program. Plants will not be actually listed until May 1st!

https://orca-k-8-ptsa.myshopify.com/

Sat. May 1st: Sale Begins. This is when the selections will show up on the website!
Thurs. May 6th: Pickup plants 1-5pm
Fri. May 7th: Pickup plants 1-5pm
Sat. May 8th: Pickup plants 10am-3pm

We also have delivery available for a small fee, you can click it at check out.

Pick up will be at Orca K-8 School: 5215 46th Ave. S.

We have a Facebook event at:

https://www.facebook.com/events/477275760366806

It’s official- we just released our Coho salmon after 3 months of raising them up from eggs in the greenhouse. Kids got be involved every step of the way (virtually of course). My teaching area was located directly in front of the salmon tank, so I had the most incredible “green screen” imaginable. Every class we would check in on them and observe their growth & changes. We also sent home some great salmon activity packs & a great board game about salmon migration. Thanks so much to Nancy at Salmon In Schools who always really helps us out with materials & inspiration. Evidently we were one of the only schools to continue this salmon program this year.

Probably one of the favorite parts of this journey was the naming of the salmon by kids- check out this board w/ all the names:

This all lead to our salmon release at Seward Park on a cold & windy day. Families signed up for staggered times w/ social distanced areas for the release. We had a great time and it was a fitting end to our pandemic salmon journey. Thanks to all the families for showing up and making it such a cool event.