#GardenGnomies @MortElementary leveled up their growing game! Thanks to UF/IFAS and Alex Baron for helping us with our drip irrigation!! 💧

#GardenGnomies @MortElementary enriched their souls while they enriched the soil at the first club…watch us grow! 🌱 🥕 🌻JuniorMasterGardener #BEFOREAFTERCHALLENGE #BACKTOSCHOOL #SCHOOLGARDEN

Celebrate the first day of #HispanicHeritageMonth with #EJHero Cesar Chavez. Cesar was an American labor & civil rights activist whose work led to scientific research & public info on the dangers of pesticides to human health & ecosystems... (1/2)

Cesar co-founded the United Farm Workers (United Farm Workers) labor union in 1962, the first organization to politically represent workers who were being exploited by the agriculture industry. Learn more in this video & lesson plan from PBS 👉 rmpbs.pbslearningmedia.org/resource/ameri…. #ecoteacher (2/2)

#GardenGnomies continued to learn how to be good stewards of 🌍 with a mini-lesson about water conservation and the water cycle from UF/IFAS. Drip irrigation installation complete. 💧 🌱 #SchoolGardens @MortElementary HCPSElemScience HCPS Transformation Network

Signed up for beekeeping certification USF Botanical Gardens. Super excited about this year long course and to share the importance of bees with @MortElementary. 🐝

#gardengnomies worked together and measured the area and perimeter to map it so they can plant it. @MortElementary HCPS Transformation Network HCPS Elementary Math HCPSElemScience

#GardenGnomies used #Math tools to plant #strawberry plants, while understanding they need space and respond to seasonal changes. #SchoolGardens teach life skills….#patience. Sweet things come to those that wait. 🍓 📏 @MortElementary HCPSElemScience HCPS Elementary Math

#GardenGnomies harvested Rosita Eggplant from Baker Creek Seeds and then Mr. Matt made them Eggplant Parmesan . They thought it was 🍕. 🤣😝😜#SchoolGardens #veggies . @MortElementary

#GardenGnomies don’t believe a banana can taste like ice cream. Thanks Florida Agriculture in the Classroom, they’ll be able to taste the ice cream variety 1-2yrs.🤣 🍌 🍨 @MortElementary #patience #LifeSkills #banana #fruit #SchoolGardens #farmtoschool #floridaagriculture

#GardenGnomies learned how to propagate and reproduce a #pineapple from its rare seeds hidden 3/8” in the rind with an innovative tool. 🖊 😆 #LongTermInvestigation #SchoolGardens @MortElementary HCPSElemScience HCPS Elementary Math

#GardenGnomies are so very thankful for our new Lettuce Grow tower donated by the local Kiwanis club member Suzuki Bredbenner. 🌱 🙏🏼 🍉 @MortElementary

The garden blessed the #GardenGnomies with a bountiful harvest. #Schoolgarden

So proud of the #GreenGardenGnomies @MortElementary for being the 1st elementary in Hillsborough Schools to complete all 15 activities to receive 3 badges!! ♻️ 🌍 🌱 #Reduce #Reuse #Recycle #Swag #HCPSGreenTeam @McKinstryCo

Today was a good day in the #SchoolGarden @MortElementary!! #GardenGnomies harvested a bounty of tomatoes, peppers, purple beans and eggplants! The visitor stole the show tho!! #dragonfly

It takes a village and the 5th grade team @MortElementary are committed to growing in the garden! So many lessons…germination, plant parts, volume, teamwork, listening, depth, patterns and following directions. Watch us grow! #schoolgarden HCPSElemScience HCPS Elementary Math

Let me hear you say, this is bananas B-A-N-A-N-A-!! Mort Elementary The #banana plant is finally flowering after years. 🍌 HCPSElemScience #schoolgarden #outdoorclassroom

Scholars Mort Elementary are #thankful for Mrs.Lewis Feeding Tampa Bay teaching us how to make new recipes with the #sweetpotato harvest from our garden. #lifeskills #schoolgarden Hillsborough Schools