Growing Gardens, Growing Minds: MDES School Garden Project

Growing Gardens, Growing Minds: MDES School Garden Project Connecting youth with the environment and healthy food through authentic learning opportunities in our school's gardens.

Today on the Mount Desert Island Elementary School garden stand....Blue morning glories, cucumbers, medium size pumpkins...
06/20/2026

Today on the Mount Desert Island Elementary School garden stand....Blue morning glories, cucumbers, medium size pumpkins, nasturtiums, sweet peppers, romaine lettuce starts...$4.00/6 packs. Echinacea--big pot-$10.00/small pot $5.00. Rhubarb just picked-$6 a bunch. Flower bouquets-$8.00, hanging plants-$15.00. Across from the Northeast Harbor Library. Cash box on garden stand/honor system-cash or checks made out to MDES garden. All proceeds support the children's school garden.

Today on the Mount Desert Island Elementary School garden stand....Blue morning glories, cucumbers, big pumpkins, med. s...
06/16/2026

Today on the Mount Desert Island Elementary School garden stand....Blue morning glories, cucumbers, big pumpkins, med. size pumpkins, nasturtiums, butternut squash, sweet peppers, zucchini, bok choi, romaine lettuce starts, butterhead lettuce starts...$4.00/6 packs. Mammoth Sunflowers-4 for $1. Rhubarb just picked-$6 a bunch. Edible sage and chives-$3 a bunch. Echinacea potted seedlings-purple-$4.00 a pot. Across from the Northeast Harbor Library. Cash box on garden stand/honor system-cash or checks made out to MDES garden. All proceeds support the children's school garden.

The Mount Desert Elementary School garden is honored to be part of the Garden Club of Mount Desert's~Open Garden Day on ...
06/16/2026

The Mount Desert Elementary School garden is honored to be part of the Garden Club of Mount Desert's~Open Garden Day on Saturday, July 25th. The school garden~along with six beautiful Northeast Harbor estate gardens will be open to the public for visiting. Tickets and more information are available in the link in the comment section. Happy Gardening

The Maine School Garden Network organizes school garden summer tours for garden educators across the state of Maine. Thi...
06/14/2026

The Maine School Garden Network organizes school garden summer tours for garden educators across the state of Maine. This year the Mount Desert Elementary School garden will be included in the Open Garden Day line-up. If you are a garden educator or interested in starting a school garden~this is a wonderful way to connect with people who feel strongly about school gardens for children. A free event. For more information: https://msgn.org/

""Our School Garden Summer Tours run from late June through early August, with stops all across the state. These tours are a fantastic opportunity to connect with fellow school garden coordinators, explore different sites, gather fresh ideas, and share your own garden experiences.""

A busy week in the garden. The preschoolers planted potatoes, a few of the older students have been working alongside th...
06/05/2026

A busy week in the garden. The preschoolers planted potatoes, a few of the older students have been working alongside the younger children in the garden, seeds needed to be planted for a big batch of seedlings to be grown in the greenhouse for the garden stand, there was a lot of daily watering to do to care for newly planted tomatoes, peppers and flowers and we had good fun tasting sour rhubarb and playing with giant rhubarb leaves. The garden is happy to have sunny, hot days! Summer is almost here!

A busy week in the garden! Young gardeners planted and staked over 50 tomato plants, built tomato trellises, moved straw...
05/31/2026

A busy week in the garden! Young gardeners planted and staked over 50 tomato plants, built tomato trellises, moved straw bales and big bags of potting soil, prepped the garden bed~planted cucumber, sunflower, pumpkin, squash and flower seeds to grow in the greenhouse for mid June planting~and for our summer farm stand and continuing seedling sale-(open daily-honor system cash box). PreK had fun making wet streams of mud while watering plants on the one very hot day last week. There is much to do to prepare the garden for the summer~many hands makes for happy work!

The Mount Desert Elementary School's seedling sale was a wonderful success! The children and garden folk send their deep...
05/22/2026

The Mount Desert Elementary School's seedling sale was a wonderful success! The children and garden folk send their deepest thanks to all who bought plants to support our school garden! The 5th graders, who entirely ran the sale, were the most amazing hosts~representing their school with honor and kindness. The class received many compliments about how helpful and proud they were to be clerks, cashiers and representatives of their school~a very important early lesson in good citizenship! Mustang Pride!

Our seedling sale was a GREAT success and the Mount Desert Elementary School children send their deepest thanks for all ...
05/21/2026

Our seedling sale was a GREAT success and the Mount Desert Elementary School children send their deepest thanks for all who visited our garden to buy plants yesterday! The farm stand is set up and ready for customers-there is a box with monies/honor system. The plants need good homes and today and over the long weekend ahead-plants are at REDUCED prices. Tomatoes-2 and 3 foot high tomato plants/slicers (sold out of cherries), 3 different sweet peppers, calendula, hanging nasturtiums, corn, romaine lettuce, spinach.... the weather is predicted to be cold!-harden off plants before bringing outdoors and planting into the ground. Plants on the farm stand will be put into the greenhouse in the afternoon/night--both doors are open and folks can go inside for selections at anytime--money box will be on the table--checks made out to MDES Garden. Across from the Northeast Harbor Library. Thank you for supporting our school garden!

Tomorrow! Wednesday, May 20th from 9:30 to 2:00. The Mount Desert Elementary School's garden program seedling sale fundr...
05/19/2026

Tomorrow! Wednesday, May 20th from 9:30 to 2:00. The Mount Desert Elementary School's garden program seedling sale fundraiser run by our amazing 5th grade gardeners! All plants will be sold directly from the warm greenhouse so will need hardening off for a few days before planting into the ground. Sorry, No early birds. Cash or checks only--we do not have electronic payment options. Across from the Northeast Harbor Library. Please come support our school garden!

Coming up! This Wednesday, May 20th from 9:30 to 2:00. The Mount Desert Elementary School's garden program seedling sale...
05/17/2026

Coming up! This Wednesday, May 20th from 9:30 to 2:00. The Mount Desert Elementary School's garden program seedling sale fundraiser run by our amazing 5th grade gardeners! All plants will be sold directly from the warm greenhouse so will need hardening off for a week or so before planting into the ground. Sorry, NO early birds, early sales or holds. Cash or checks only--we do not have electronic payment options. Across from the Northeast Harbor Library. We have a new farm stand this year across from the library and will have warmer weather seedlings such as cucumbers, squash, more tomatoes....early June. Thank you for supporting our school garden!

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