Students in Per 1 and 7 installed some fence posts and two 4'x8' wire sheets to form a pea climbing fence. We test-planted some snow peas and will plant the rest on Tuesday if they survive the chicken test! Part of the pea fence was wrapping the raised garden with bird netting.
Sunday, October 30, 2022
Monday, October 24, 2022
Sunday, October 23, 2022
Students Remove Wood Pallets from around Raised Planters
Last year with the student's help we placed wood pallets at the end of each raised garden. We then placed an orange flexible plastic fence material over that. This was done in an attempt to keep the chickens from eating the vegetable plants. For the most part, it was a success. We decided this year to try something a bit different. What that is, is still in the works.
The wood pallets will be used for projects in the construction class beginning next week.
Saturday, October 15, 2022
Friday, October 14, 2022
Student remove wood Pallets from garden
Last year attempt to build barriers around the raised gardens to keep chickens out of the garden was removed. Last year students installed wood pallets at each end of the raised garden, then placed orange safety fencing we had around campus on them. The idea actually worked but made the garden look crowded. This year we will be trying something different. The students will be researching farms that have both chickens and vegetables to find out what might work in our garden to keep chickens out!
Leaf Peeping. Who knew?
This past weekend October 7-9 Mr. Connor and his wife drove to an area near Bishop, CA. Bishop is located approximately 300 miles from the city of Upland. They drove to the area to see the leaves changing color! It turns out that taking part in this is called Leaf Peeping!
Students Add Bark to Citrus Tree Area
Mr. Connor's periods 1 & 7 worked diligently at placing bark around the 12 citrus trees in the school garden last week.
Don Delano Retirement
Yesterday, October 13, 2022, I had the good fortune of being invited and able to attend the retirement party for Don Delano at the LA County Fairgrounds. Don has been running the Farm at the fairgrounds for the past 31 years.
Don and his group at the farm are the reason that the HHS Family Farm exists. In the Fall of 2017 Hillside High took a trip to the LA County Fair. At the end of our stay, we were given two hens and told that any of the eggs that were laid were probably fertile. We placed the eggs in an incubator and hatched a couple of chicks. Today our farm has over 40 chickens. Later interactions with the LA County Fair Farm personnel provided us with vegetables to grow on our farm.
Thank you, Don!
I received the nicest email....
After reading the email I realized I have not posted to the page since summer 😞.
Good Afternoon Mr. Connor,
I'm reaching out because one of the kids in the environmental club I volunteer with (her name's Ainsley) wanted to let you know how helpful your Hillside High Family Farm website HHSfamilyfarm.blogspot.com was for us!
Ainsley has been working on a project about people interact with the environment, so she was doing research on agriculture and ended up on your site... It was a wonderful find because she was able to get some excellent info & she thought you might appreciate hearing it:) You've made an awesome resource here.
Ainsley also found an awesome agriculture page for kids, too... It's a fun overview of farming with info on agriculture history, farming around the world, and careers in ag, and Ainsley had the idea that we could include this in our thank-you note as a way of returning the favor! I'll put it here:
She thought it would be a useful link for you to add to the 'Education' links section you have on your site. Hopefully it's helpful !
Thank you so much again Roger and if it's not too much trouble do you think you'd be able to add it? I'll see Ainsley again next week and I could show her then - she would be so thrilled to see her suggestion there:) Have a good weekend.
Thanks,
Hannah A (and Ainsley)
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