Shorecliffs' West View Learning Garden

West View Learning Garden Conserves Water This year in the West View Learning Garden we are focused on saving water and conservation. We are learning how to garden with California Native plants, bringing the beauty of California into our own schoolyard landscape. We put in a new succulent garden along the fence. We learned about cloning plants. Our boxes are thriving with fresh veggies that will be harvested soon. We harvested our fist bunch of carrots last week!

We are learning how to make the garden a more sustainable way by learning about composting and worm compost tea. We experienced how important it is to add biology to the soil and watched fungi and rhizomes under microscopes improve our soil. We added new fungi amendments to our own soil and learned that a certain fungi is the biggest living organism in the world. We experimented with adding bio-teas and charted the growth before and after on tomato plants.