Our Heart Garden

Growing respect, understanding and reconciliation, one seed at a time

We found a bud!

Our marigold plants that we began indoors are getting ready to bloom.

Many hands make light work!

Classes came to the garden to help plant all the beautiful bedding plants that were donated.

An Honour Song for the Heart Garden

A local high school student performed a Women's Fancy Dance Honour Song for Residential School Survivors at our Opening Ceremony

Tomatoes, Basil and Marigolds!

Tomato seedlings that we started from Tomatosphere seeds are planted along side basil and marigolds as we experiment with companion planting.

The Tomatoes are Ready!

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Planting lupins like Miss Rumphius

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Eating beans!

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Getting our Hands Dirty Planting Lettuce!

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Planting our Pepper Plants in our Earthbox

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Learning about Protecting the Environment from the Earth Rangers

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We got to meet a crimson red toucanet today thanks to @EarthRangers . Learning about Reduce, Reuse, Recycle at @palliserheights pic.twitter.com/xf47J3HkGA

— Claire Kreuger (@ClaireKreuger) December 8, 2016

The American kestrel took a few flights around the @palliserheights gym with @EarthRangers pic.twitter.com/ne9kQklO6t

— Claire Kreuger (@ClaireKreuger) December 8, 2016

A peregrine falcon at @palliserheights thanks to @EarthRangers pic.twitter.com/zD4HCqkwpo

— Claire Kreuger (@ClaireKreuger) December 8, 2016

Happy World Soil Day!

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To celebrate World Soil Day (Dec. 5), the Grade 3 FI class harvested worm castings from our vermicompost! We will use the castings as compost in our garden. The worms that we removed will be placed back into our Worm Factory 360 vermicompost bin in the classroom. We love worms!

Our Indoor Garden is Growing Fast!

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Beans!!!

Tomatoes!

Peppers!

Basil!

Tomato seedlings are coming up!

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Our junior garden club set up a second Earth Box today for our newly sprouted tomato plants.

Tea party!

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We enjoyed our last tea party so much, we had another one! The mint tea sure is tasty!

On June 3, 2015 the Canadian Truth and Reconciliation Commission released their final report on the legacy of the Indian Residential School System. As part of the closing ceremonies, a Heart Garden was planted at Rideau Hall in Ottawa. School children wrote messages of reconciliation on hearts and planted them in the ground. In the spirit of reconciliation, students at Palliser Heights school were inspired to create our own Heart Garden at our school in Moose Jaw, SK.

Our goals for this project are three-fold:
1-To attend to the TRC Calls to Action to commemorate the legacy of residential schools and work towards reconciliation
2-To create a teaching garden space
3-To beautify an unsightly part of our school yard.

All our students learned about the history of residential schools in Canada and created both a Project of Heart Tile as well as a Heart for our pathway to the Heart Garden

We raised money and received many in-kind donations which allowed us to create a fenced in garden space, with irrigation and raised beds. We planted pumpkins, potatoes, carrots, beets, tomatoes (from the Tomatosphere project), Saskatoon berry bushes and various herbs. This fall we invited local chefs to help us cook up the produce.

We also set aside a corner of the garden for plants that are native to Saskatchewan. We received many seedlings from the First Nations University.

We are truly grateful for all the help we have received with this project!