Brown Elementary Learning Garden

08/03/2026

Tomorrow is our... LAST SUMMER GARDEN DAY in the Brown Elementary Learning Garden 🥕🍅🌼

We’ve had SO much fun growing, learning, exploring, harvesting, and getting our hands dirty together this summer—and we’re not ready for it to end just yet! 💚

One of our favorite parts of Garden Day has been welcoming **new families, friends, and little gardeners** to the Brown Elementary garden. There’s always something new to discover, something delicious to harvest, and plenty of fun to be had! 🌱🐛🌻

🌼 JOIN US TOMORROW — TUESDAY, AUGUST 4 @ 5:30 PM🌼

Come for one more evening of:
🥕 Harvesting fresh veggies & herbs
🍅 Exploring what’s growing
🌻 Learning something new
🐝 Discovering garden friends
💚 Spending time together as a community
🎉 CELEBRATING AN AMAZING SUMMER IN THE GARDEN!

Whether you’ve joined us all summer or you’ve been meaning to stop by—TOMORROW IS THE NIGHT! Bring the kids, bring a friend, and come enjoy one last summer evening in the garden with us. RSVP here:
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07/30/2026

What an incredible Garden Day we had in the Brown Elementary Learning Garden this past Tuesday! ☀️ Our young gardeners had a wonderful evening exploring, harvesting, and discovering all the amazing things growing in the Brown Learning Garden.

This week's harvest included:
🥒 Cucumbers
🍅 Tomatoes
🌿 Fresh herbs
🫛 Snap peas
🌻 Sunflowers

We even discovered a **baby watermelon** growing! 🍉💚

The garden was full of exciting discoveries, too. We met some fascinating bugs—including a few giant **tomato hornworms** that were happily munching on our tomato plants before we carefully removed them! 🐛

One of our favorite parts of Garden Day is welcoming new families and friends. There's always something new to learn, something to harvest, and someone new to meet. Everyone went home with fresh veggies and herbs to enjoy—a delicious reward for all their hard work!

🌼 **Don't miss our LAST Summer Garden Day!** 🌼

Join us **Tuesday, August 4, at 5:30 PM** for one more evening of harvesting, exploring, learning, and celebrating all we've grown together this summer. Whether you've joined us before or have been thinking about stopping by, we'd love to see you there!

Learn more and RSVP here: https://www.facebook.com/share/1EKUgK1prT/

We can't wait to celebrate one more beautiful evening in the garden with our Brown Elementary community! 🌱💚

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07/29/2026

Foundations of Gardening registration is open now through August 26th!
https://www.canr.msu.edu/foundations-of-gardening/

07/15/2026

🌿 Brown Elementary Learning Garden – Summer Garden Day Recap ☀️💚 What a wonderful evening in the Learning Garden! Even with a 86° temperature, the garden was the perfect place to cool off, connect, and enjoy time together. Thank you to everyone who joined us!

Here's what we accomplished together:
🌱 Pulled weeds and refreshed the garden beds.
🍅 Rebuilt the tomato trellis and pruned our tomato plants, which have grown into beautiful, thriving bushes.
💧 Watered the garden—and the mist setting on the hose was definitely a favorite way for the kids to cool down!
🐝 Installed new bug hotels to provide homes for beneficial insects and pollinators.
🐦 Added two water stations for birds, bees, butterflies, and hummingbirds.
🌿 Sampled the delicious tropical flavor of fresh pineapple sage.
🫛 Celebrated our first little snap peas & peppers beginning to emerge.
♻️ Used our compost bin to help keep the garden healthy and clean.
🎨 Enjoyed sidewalk chalk masterpieces and lots of bubble wand fun between garden tasks.

One of the best parts of every garden day is answering plant questions, sharing gardening tips, and watching children discover where food comes from. Every visit brings something new to learn!

The harvest is just getting started! As fresh produce ripens, we'll be sending our volunteer gardeners home with a bag of fresh vegetables and herbs as a thank-you for helping care for the garden. Throughout the season we'll be harvesting herbs, tomatoes, green peppers, cucumbers, green beans, snap peas, and more. The Learning Garden is also open to our We Are BC community during harvest season because we believe fresh food is meant to be shared.

Join us at our next garden day on Tuesday, July 28th at 5:30pm. We'll have stickers and paint pens so kids can decorate kindness rocks to place throughout the garden, along with more hands-on gardening, learning, and family fun. https://www.facebook.com/share/18thBoAQwV/

Whether you're an experienced gardener or have never planted a seed before, there's a place for you here. Bring the kids, invite a friend, pack a picnic if you'd like, and spend a little time growing with us this summer.

If you love seeing community projects like this, please **like, comment, and share** this post to help us reach more families. We'd love to welcome even more neighbors into the garden! Many thanks!

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07/12/2026

Some of our veggies could use a little lift! Sowing a succession crop keeps veggies growing throughout the season.

07/07/2026

06/24/2026

Enjoy the fireflies this summer 🌞

Fireflies aren't really pollinators--it would be more by accident that they moved pollen--but we love them anyway! The more you learn about them, the more you can make your yard or garden their home.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/enjoying-the-fireflies-this-summer-thank-a-snail