Categories: Classes & Events, ELSEE Teaching, Summer Camp, What's Happening
Summer camp at CNGF is still going on until August 7th! One day sign-ups are available for $75 per day with weekly pricing available on the website at http://middlebrookcenter.com/elsee/events/category/camp/. Camp is offered in morning and afternoon sections with mornings including lunch. Come and experience a STEAM education, sustainability, and the environment in a native California garden! […]
Categories: ELSEE Teaching, What's Happening
The good news is that California Public schools are going to get a boost from the state with new available funds. After dividing up the funds, each school district will have money to spend. A few of us from CNGF attended a meeting at Lincoln High School in San Jose last night that was hosted by the […]
Categories: ELSEE Teaching, Summer Camp, What's Happening
The Middlebrook Center adopted three baby chicks for our Nature Discovery Summer Camp of 2013 . Their names are Butterscotch, Z, and Anita. (Two of the chickens look the same, so collectively they are called Manzanita, apart we call them Z and Anita.) […]
Categories: Aquaponics, Downtown College Prep, ELSEE Teaching, Garden Design, What's Happening
Progress Update: January 16 2014, ELSEE Garden for the Environmental Science class at Downtown College Prep Ojan Mobedshahi is working with students in the Environmental Science class at Downtown College Prep to transform their land into an “ELSEE” model garden. The final result will introduce California native […]
Categories: Aquaponics, ELSEE Teaching, What's Happening
This week the aquaponics team gave our system at the Middlebrook Center’s ELSEE Garden an upgrade by turning one of our IBC grow beds into a combination solids settling tank and a gravel bio-filter. The gravel prevents solids from entering the floating raft beds (solids can absorb precious oxygen). Simultaneously, the gravel provides lots of […]