Plant a Smile at Pelion Outdoor Classroom!
Your 5th & 6th graders are pumped to catch insects for closer investigation--treat them to an excursion!
Can you ID this common NY spider?
10cents x a few hundred households scanning receipts for participating products ADDS UP to garden program funding!! Download the app; share the request because you can contribute no matter where you live or shop. Just find City Honors/Fosdick Masten in the school dropdown menu to support Pelion today!
Come get a selfie with our SKYSCRAPER SUNFLOWER! I think the BPL Book Mobile will be on-site. Pickup a voter registration form Bring $$ for food truck dinner or some Pelion PESTO--made from our garlic and basil! Come sit on a blanket in the garden and eat your meal picnic style and enjoy a book. Food trucks who have committed to attend this year are: Dirty Bird Chicken and Waffles India Gate Hertel Maria Bene Cibo Italian Money Bags Halal dumplings Sunshine Vegan Eats Taffy’s Milkshakes Yumm Sweets and Snack
Sign ups are not required; BRING YOU + A FRIEND. Forecast looks FUNSHINEY!
Our garden club LOVES 🥰 designing and carving pumpkins. Could you donate a few medium sized ones around 22OCT? We will need at least a dozen. Any bit helps.
We will start at the garden and work our way around campus. It's most helpful if you bring your own refillable water bottle and favorite gloves.
We're getting a lot of questions about the pickup location. 212 Best St is the address; we are across from the school (off-campus). You can pickup anytime between 4-4:15pm At 4:20pm any remaining students will be walked to the front of the school to wait for pickup there.
LOVE the confidence and joy. More schools should offer Agriculture scholarships!
I know many people are excited by praying mantis visitors in the garden. They are opportunistic predators so be careful of how many you keep around and where they are hunting. I found 3 in our primrose forest and that’s too many for our space considering one egg sac can release 50 hungry hunters. We caught this one devouring a monarch. NOT COOL, MANTID—not. Cool.
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URBAN FARM DAY IS TOMORROW/SATURDAY THE 16TH from 10am-3pm. Setup begins at 9am and we need a lot of helpers as we are expecting a group tour at 10:30 and SloRoll cyclists around 2pm. 212 Best St. We will have a number of small priced items--mostly from $1-3 so please bring little monies. We do have venmo, cashapp, zelle and paypal too. Bring some of you own bags or containers to hold plants and produce. A very long day but hopefully we'll find NEW CHAMPIONS FOR SCHOOL GARDENS AND MICRO FARMS. Please repost the invite if you cannot attend.
Kat is running another forager recipes workshop. JOIN US. it’s a good idea to bring a bag or container so you can take home your goodies.
Meh. I need a prettier piece of rebar. How do I glam this up without making it bulky? We still need the jug handles to clear it. Do they make beads with larger openings?
LOL it's kinda like our logo?? MON&TUES this week will be brutally hot and dry therefore Ms.Caesandra needs to water earlier than 9-11am to get through all the other watering spaces too. If you want to help with refilling the barrels--ie firehoses, join Monday at 8am.
meh. They wouldn't let me weigh in as a childless person. BUT I'M STILL EXCITED SOMETHING LIKE THIS IS FINALLY....
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Not sure we've posted this HERE yet; but, there are many non-monetary ways to assist Pelion's mission and programs. Click to open the doc.
There are membership discounts based on zip code; be sure to inquire!
Help Pelion get some themed reads for upcoming events. Used books + paperbacks preferred. We are not picky about the source. Find the books thrifted/locally or off your own shelves if your students have outgrown them. We would appreciate any donations including a gift card; but, here are some titles we've wished for a very long time. https://www.amazon.com/hz/wishlist/dl/invite/RirUN6BC-MlhkzP9fFtL76co8p9cNK9nLOKXjmgdxcglIlV_3ikj4XGF4m6pPo35noLB8YXQwNW1aQWoyKlJ3qNUl1hjoMaBdq8Gtu0?ref_=wl_share
A neighbor is trying to help us rehome these littlest kittens which we first noticed back in June. Please share personally--not in the groups which have been somewhat judgey as though Pelion is somehow irresponsible. The kittens are located in Buffalo; we'd like to see them rehomed before November. If you'd like to help with food donation, vet visit fees, transportation, or personally rehoming please txt 716-803-5566
Wishing I was a teen just from 11-15AUG
We have enjoyed a lot of time with 2 sets of siblings this summer. Can you guess which pair won’t let us hug them or pick them up? Can you guess which duo are better bug hunters? Which pair tease each other relentlessly?
If you bought one of our giant pumpkin starters be sure to follow the efforts at FVF and cheer them on!
We will try to do this at Pelion—check your home garden milkweed too
It's turning out to be a dry summer! Supporters can volunteer Mon-Saturday from 9-11am all summer from June 16th until Sept 14th. The link to sign up is here: https://calendar.app.google/e4Bef4PfNgh8GHvv9 Pelion especially needs extra help Aug 11-16th to prepare for Urban Farm Day. Please share the flyer widely.
Progress this year seems slow; but, vines are finally reaching upward. We planted Mina lobata, scarlet runner and a few hyacinth bean. Guess who we are trying to attract?
JOIN US TODAY/SATURDAY! (You can visit the garden Sunday; however, only the feral kitties will be available to answer questions).
Look who popped over for East Side Garden Walk. YOU KNOW THIS GNOME? He's kinda famous all over Erie County Department of Environment and Planning
AMAZING!! We are the distro site SATURDAY!
These are activities at the newest BPS school garden and we are helping on TUESDAYS.
14-18yrs!! It's rare to find internships for high schoolers--check it out
Please share. Donations during this window are matched and rally extra reach more easily.
REFILLING H2O BARRELS w/the firehoses Tues 9-11am. Send your tweens. Wear your bathing suits!