Mort Elementary’s Garden Club

School gardens promote life skills; children grow with the garden. 🌎 Kids who grow veggies, eat veggies. 🌱🌻 🥬 🍎 #GardenGnomies

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Scholars @Mort_Manatees are #thankful for Mrs.Lewis @FeedingTampaBay teaching us how to make new recipes with the #sweetpotato harvest from our garden. #lifeskills #schoolgarden @HillsboroughSch

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@Mort_Manatees would like to express our gratitude to @rareseeds for their generous seed donation! 🙌🏼 Your kindness will allow us to continue to #bloom! 🌸 Pink and blue corn…what??!! 😳 We are so excited to grow everything! @HillsboroughSch #schoolgarden

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Let me hear you say, this is bananas
B-A-N-A-N-A-!! @Mort_Manatees
The #banana plant is finally flowering after years. 🍌 @HCPSElemScience
#schoolgarden #outdoorclassroom

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It takes a village and the 5th grade team @MortElementary are committed to growing in the garden! So many lessons…germination, plant parts, volume, teamwork, listening, depth, patterns and following directions. Watch us grow! #schoolgarden
@HCPSElemScience @HCPSElemMath1

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@MortElementary #GardenGnomies are helping our planet by planting a tree donated by #HCPSGreenTeam @HillsboroughSch . 🌎 ♻️
#EarthDay2023
#GreenSchools
#ClimateEducation #SchoolGardens

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Today was a good day in the #SchoolGarden @MortElementary!! #GardenGnomies harvested a bounty of tomatoes, peppers, purple beans and eggplants! The visitor stole the show tho!! #dragonfly

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So proud of the #GreenGardenGnomies @MortElementary for being the 1st elementary in @HillsboroughSch to complete all 15 activities to receive 3 badges!! ♻️ 🌍 🌱 #Reduce #Reuse #Recycle #Swag #HCPSGreenTeam @McKinstryCo

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@MonarchsJV @psprincess18

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The garden blessed the #GardenGnomies with a bountiful harvest. #Schoolgarden

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#GardenGnomies are so very thankful for our new @knowitorgrowit tower donated by the local @Kiwanis club member Suzuki Bredbenner. 🌱 🙏🏼 🍉 @MortElementary

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#GardenGnomies learned how to propagate and reproduce a #pineapple from its rare seeds hidden 3/8” in the rind with an innovative tool. 🖊 😆 #LongTermInvestigation #SchoolGardens @MortElementary @HCPSElemScience @HCPSElemMath1

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#GardenGnomies don’t believe a banana can taste like ice cream. Thanks Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, they’ll be able to taste the ice cream variety 1-2yrs.🤣 🍌 🍨 @MortElementary #patience #LifeSkills #banana #fruit #SchoolGardens #farmtoschool #floridaagriculture

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#GardenGnomies harvested Rosita Eggplant from @rareseeds and then Mr. Matt made them Eggplant Parmesan . They thought it was 🍕. 🤣😝😜#SchoolGardens #veggies . @MortElementary

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#GardenGnomies used #Math tools to plant #strawberry plants, while understanding they need space and respond to seasonal changes. #SchoolGardens teach life skills….#patience. Sweet things come to those that wait. 🍓 📏 @MortElementary @HCPSElemScience @HCPSElemMath1

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@JMGKids #GardenGnomies @MortElementary accept the #monsterplant October Challenge 👻

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#gardengnomies worked together and measured the area and perimeter to map it so they can plant it. @MortElementary @TransformHCPS @HCPSElemMath1 @HCPSElemScience

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Signed up for beekeeping certification @GardensUsf. Super excited about this year long course and to share the importance of bees with @MortElementary. 🐝

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Thanks @Kids_Gardening for the gifts!

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Woohoo!! 🎉 🙌🏼 Thank you @Kids_Gardening for selecting the #GardenGnomies as an honorable mention in your photo contest. 📸
@MortElementary @MrMaestroMoreno @ProfeLlerena

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#GardenGnomies continued to learn how to be good stewards of 🌍 with a mini-lesson about water conservation and the water cycle from @UF_IFAS. Drip irrigation installation complete. 💧 🌱 #SchoolGardens @MortElementary @HCPSElemScience @TransformHCPS

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#GardenGnomies @MortElementary enriched their souls while they enriched the soil at the first club…watch us grow! 🌱 🥕 🌻@JMGKids #BEFOREAFTERCHALLENGE #BACKTOSCHOOL #SCHOOLGARDEN