The use of a cloche can really help you during the spring and fall in the Southern Willamette Valley. Be forewarned, a cloche will not raise the lowest nighttime temperature. It will however, raise the daytime temperature up to twenty degrees. Check out the outdoor temp. 61.5 and the in the cloche temp. 78.6 at 4pm on a mostly cloudy day.
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The CSG class took a field trip to Camas Country Mill on Wednesday the 20th from 2- 5pm. We met Sue Hunton, Mill owner and Stephanie at 3:00 for our tour. We learned about farming, harvesting and milling grains. 100 years ago there were many grain mills in the Willamette Valley, for a while there weren't any, now there are three. Camas Country Mill is one of those three. The field trip was fun and informative. Every student witnessed wheat grain being milled, bagged, labeled, and prepared for shipment. Every student was given one pound of hard wheat flower that they weighed, bagged, and created their own label for. Score!!! Photographs by Rachel Chef, Heidi Tunnel and Sous Chef, Jason joined Crelane Student gardeners, teachers, parents and family members on Monday the 18 of March to celebrate the one year anniversary of the implementation of the Creslane School Garden. The garden was built on March 17th 2012. Chefs Heidi and Jason made a variety of baked good using milled grains from Camas Country Mill. We will be visiting Camas Country Mill on Wednesday the 20th of March. Special thanks to everyone that has supported the garden during the past year. Thanks goes to the Smith Family, Perdue Family, Marquess Family, Ms. Rachel, Mr. Fried, Mrs. Waller, Mrs. Robertson, Betsy, Tammy, Mr. Beck, Mr. Hamilton, and many, many more. Sean and Debbie Creslane Student Gardeners seeded and delivered a variety of seeded trays of vegetable and flower starts to every classroom at Creslane Elementary School this week. Classrooms will raise the plants and then plant them, send them home with students or give them back to the CSG so that we can plant them in the garden. Garden Class will begin on Monday February 25 and end on May 20th. The class will occur every Monday we have school, from 2:15 until 3:45PM during that time period.
We are going to have a work party on Friday, August 31st from 10-12. Bring gloves and water if you are able to help.
The t-shirts just arrived! Please contact us if you are interested in buying one. They are $20 for adult shirts and $16 for kid shirts. All of the money made from our t-shirt sales will go directly to our garden.
On the 12th of May the Creslane School Garden hosted its first annual garden sale. All the proceeds from this sale have gone to pay for the implementation of the new school garden. Gini Davis from the Creswell Chronicle wrote this article about the sale. For more pictures of the sale check our Garden Sale photo album. The sale raised $1,000 for the school garden. This is absolutely incredible!
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