First Garlic Harvest

Sant Bani School’s great garlic garden turned into a harvest to behold—500 beautiful blubs ready for sale at local Farmers Markets. Sales tables appeared in late summer on Tuesdays in Franklin at the Unitarian Universalist Meetinghouse and int Tilton at the Tanger Outlet Mall on Wednesdays. The whole crop was sold out in just a few weeks.

Our success will foster more success. This year we will plant one thousand cloves in late October. Watch for scapes to be on sale in mid-June and the bulbs in August. Scapes are the delicious flower stems that garlic plants produce before the bulbs mature.

More Than Garlic

Parents and students who want to grow in a new direction are invited to participate in Sant Bani Schools new garden that follows on the successful experiment with garlic.

Fridays from 3:30-5:30 there is an open gardening opportunity open to the entire community. The site is ont eh north side of Ashram Road between the road and the Upper Building. Extended or weekend hours can be arranged by contacting Susan Dyment.

A kale planting is the pilot for the expanded project, and butternut squash is already part of the Ashram garden and will be used in the soup for the Empty Bowls Dinner on October 9th as well as the Lower Building autumn harvest celebration. Lettuce will be planted in the spring of 2010.

Sustainable gardening is part of the vision of Sant Bani School for both parents and faculty. There are many possibilities and your interest, input and participation will help direct the project.