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Hoop Madness on the Farm
The Farm at Walker Jones has a deep appreciation for all the adult volunteers that help make the effort possible, but nothing can compare with the wall of energy that hit the farm yesterday in the...
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Middle School Builds the Garden Teepees
On Friday, our middle school students hit the farm again in order to construct the teepee supports for the pole beans. Under the guidance of math teacher, John LaRue, the students planned out the...
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Honeybees in the City
A farm is never quite a farm until the creatures arrive. The chickens are still in the plan, but they have been beat out as first residents by approximately 26,000 new friends of the farm. Half of...
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Deal Gives Back
When Alice Deal Middle School assistant principal, Simon Rodberg, contacted us about bringing a group of seventh grade students out to the farm for a community service day, we were more than happy to...
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From Start to Stomach
Cucumbers seedlings on a windowsill inside school… … became thriving, producing plants out on the farm… … and gave a basket of cucumbers for farming kids in need of a snack. The same kids who swore...
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NBC4 on the Farm
Recently, Elaine Reyes of NBC4 came out to see our farm and chat with the kids a bit before school let out for the summer. Click on this link to see the full video on the NBC4 site. Our middle school...
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Early Morning Okra!
One of the easiest crops to grow here in DC is okra. Yes, Robin Williams’ comedy might represent the thoughts of a few past okra consumers – “Okra is the closest thing to nylon I’ve ever eaten. It’s...
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One Potato, Two Potato, Three Potato, Four…
Red Norland potatoes ~ in the front, those harvested from plastic trash cans, those at the rear from direct sow in the ground 6 months ago our Kindergartners and 1st-graders planted 20lbs of seed...
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“The keeping of bees is like the direction of sunbeams” ~ Henry David Thoreau
“Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best,” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better...
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Through the Eyes of a Child
This season’s “Pumpkin Patch.” Every year we plant enough pumpkins so that each of our Pre-schoolers and Pre-Kindergartners can harvest their very own pumpkin on Hallowe’en. The field in which they are...
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This Season’s Pumpkins: Inside the Numbers
90 pumpkins curing, two dozen still on the vine, and 87 Pre-schoolers and Pre-kindergarters anticipating our Harvest Day Parade in 10 days’ time… I think we have it covered! Following advice from the...
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Apiculture ~ Session 1 in the 2013/2014 “Ultra Urban Green” DC3 Professional...
This past Friday, we hosted the first session of this year’s teachers professional development series titled “Ultra Urban Green” for the DC3 Collaborative (nine DC Public Schools) which covers both the...
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Pumpkin Harvest Day 2013
The “pumpkin patch” pre-invasion! Every year the culmination of the year’s growing season is our Harvest Day parade when the whole school celebrates the last day of October. As the school parades...
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