Today started with a trip to the botanical garden. UBC has had a botanical garden since 1916 and now has over 30,000 plants from 5,000 taxa. The CFE students explored the gardens for the morning and talked about the importance of having these spaces and passing on knowledge about the plants in our areas and others.
We also visited the botanicals food garden, seeing many of the things found in the orchard garden and other vegetables that we could potentially grow in our school gardens. After the vegetable garden we moved on to the physic garden. This garden has a collections of plants that have or were thought to have medicinal properties. These plants include mint, rosemary and chives. While some are now understood to be toxic many are still used today to help naturally relieve different symptoms in the body.
Today’s visit allowed us to explore another large professional garden. What we learned from this is how important visiting other gardens can be for the mind, inspiration and gaining new knowledge. Also that by visiting others we can learn more about what we might want to experiment with in our own gardens. I feel that bringing students on these types of trips might also be useful to help inspire them to find out what they might be interested in trying in the school garden.
Finally we ended the day by planning an exciting work shop for next Saturdays workshop. Stay tuned for more detailed!
Entering the garden
Moving through to the other side
A view of the garden
We also visited the botanicals food garden, seeing many of the things found in the orchard garden and other vegetables that we could potentially grow in our school gardens. After the vegetable garden we moved on to the physic garden. This garden has a collections of plants that have or were thought to have medicinal properties. These plants include mint, rosemary and chives. While some are now understood to be toxic many are still used today to help naturally relieve different symptoms in the body.
Wild strawberries
The botanical gardens food garden
Exploring the physic garden
Today’s visit allowed us to explore another large professional garden. What we learned from this is how important visiting other gardens can be for the mind, inspiration and gaining new knowledge. Also that by visiting others we can learn more about what we might want to experiment with in our own gardens. I feel that bringing students on these types of trips might also be useful to help inspire them to find out what they might be interested in trying in the school garden.
Finally we ended the day by planning an exciting work shop for next Saturdays workshop. Stay tuned for more detailed!
In the planning stages
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