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CJA Agriculture: May 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Tuesday, May 27, 2014. Magis Day, Harvest Day. Educators in the Ignatian tradition often use the Latin word magis. The garden at CJA is an example of the magis;. Jamari shows off the radishes. Milaun makes a sale at the farm stand. Thursday, May 15, 2014. Cecil shovels wood chips into the wheel barrow. An added...
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CJA Agriculture: Making labels for rose hip syrup
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, December 18, 2014. Making labels for rose hip syrup. The rose hip jelly we made turned out more like syrup than jelly. It probably didn't have enough pectin. It still tastes great. The group decided to make labels and give them out as Christmas presents. The group creating their designs.
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CJA Agriculture: April 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Tuesday, April 29, 2014. Transplanting potatoes and eggplants. Javion fills his pot with potting mix. Cecil and Javion carefully remove seedlings from their tray, being very careful to disturb the roots as little as possible. Jamari slices one evenly. Wednesday, April 23, 2014. We've got garlic doing awesome.
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CJA Agriculture: December 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, December 18, 2014. Making labels for rose hip syrup. The rose hip jelly we made turned out more like syrup than jelly. It probably didn't have enough pectin. It still tastes great. The group decided to make labels and give them out as Christmas presents. The group creating their designs. After we've p...
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CJA Agriculture: March 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Friday, March 28, 2014. Planning the rest of the planting season. On Tuesday, we started some seeds inside. Thursday, we sorted the rest of the seeds based on when they need to be planted. Tuesday, March 25, 2014. Starting seeds in flats. Thursday, March 13, 2014. Happy St. Patrick's Day. How to pot a shamrock:.
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CJA Agriculture: July 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, July 31, 2014. What the students are missing. CJA students are away for a few weeks of summer break. They're missing quite a show in the garden. A Zestar apple ripening on one of our apple trees. After harvesting a napa cabbage to the root, a new head is developing. Beet seedlings are thriving. Step t...
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CJA Agriculture: January 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, January 30, 2014. One of our indoor plants in the "wild". We recently posted about the indoor plants we care for. One of them is the Snake Plant, or Mother-In-Law's Tongue. Thursday, January 9, 2014. Compost boosts plant growth. Subscribe to: Posts (Atom). Root-Riot: a west side community garden.
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CJA Agriculture: February 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, February 27, 2014. We were going to plan out our planting calendar today, but two students asked excellent questions, and we spent the day talking about them. 1 How do seeds get into packets? 2 If you plant seeds you saved, will you get more seeds? If you save the seeds from a non-hybrid plant, you ca...
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CJA Agriculture: Making Rose Hip Jelly: Part 2
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, November 6, 2014. Making Rose Hip Jelly: Part 2. Today we finished the process of making rose hip jelly. On Tuesday we extracted the juice from our rose hips. A few seeds made it through the strainer, so we fished those out. We squeezed the lemons and added the juice to our rose hip extract. Watermark...
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CJA Agriculture: June 2014
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Welcome to CJA Agriculture, the blog by Chicago Jesuit Academy students about what's going on in our garden. We post what work we did, what crops grew, what we learned, and pictures of our garden! Thursday, June 26, 2014. Robert and Jamari harvested crops for the Garden Club's farm stand. Robert pulls a beet. Jamari shows off carrots. The team works together to harvest kale. Look at the size of those Napa cabbages! Tuesday, June 24, 2014. Hilling Potatoes, Caging Tomatoes. Our squash "patch" flourishing.
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