Children's Workshop Garden at Campos

The Children's Workshop Garden at Campos is made possible by a grant from the Citizen's Committee for New York to Children's Workshop and Campos Community Garden. It is a straw bale and Three Sisters educational garden with vegetables and other plants.

Every stage of a gardening project is an educational opportunity for children to learn: digging methods, soil health, seed starting, planting, mulching, watering, plant identification and care, pest management, harvesting, cooking, etc. The straw bale garden is a diverse vegetable garden arranged in a circle/ellipse of about 9 feet in diameter with a stem, roughly shaped like a question mark, and indeed, the garden has inspired many questions from neighbors and visitors. Inside the circle, the kids planted a Three Sisters Garden, which is an ingenious Native American companion planting technique that uses maize/corn, squash and climbing beans.

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