Shop Class
18 Jun 2025 Leave a comment
in 811K, plants, STEM Tags: bird house, horseshoe, shop, wood
This is from a shop class. The students made horseshoes games, wooden birdhouses, plants, and more.
All for Mom
24 Apr 2025 Leave a comment
in 3D design, 3D Printing, 993Q, art, plants Tags: mother's day
The students went to vasedjinn.com and created these models.
I imported them into TinkerCad to reduce the width of the walls and make a drainage hole. After printing and shipping them to the students, they painted them and then planted little plants inside.
In Emergency, Break Glass
25 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in district office, plants Tags: plants, terrarium
When a terrarium is overcrowded, the plants cannot grow to their full potential. Best practice is to repot the plants into new bigger containers. This terrarium was glass, so we had to use a hammer to break the glass and remove the plants!
Special soil for cacti and succulent plants (called Cactus Mix) is not too dense, so the water can drain out and the roots do not drown.
We carefully removed the glass bits that were stuck in the roots and soil before repotting.
811Q Machine, Technology and STEM Shop, Update
05 Jun 2024 Leave a comment
in 811Q, panorama, plants, STEM
The 811Q machine shop has undergone a (partial) renovation. Most of the equipment in the front half of the room was replaced with horticulture materials, including four tower gardens. The back half is still a machine/wood shop.
Zoom in to get the panoramic view.
On the Farm and in the ‘Hood
12 Feb 2024 Leave a comment
I spent the day in the Bronx. Indoor hydroponics for vegetables, aquaculture for fish, and a couple of yard birds for the eggs.
Plus, a building-high mural of local celebrities!
Nose Fungus?
27 Jun 2023 Leave a comment
Saw this mushroom growing out of a tree stump. Is that a nostril on it side?
Will They Turn Silver when they Ripen?
08 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in Brooklyn, plants Tags: forks, sidewalk, surreal
This sidewalk fork garden fascinates me on so many levels.
890641
08 Jun 2022 Leave a comment
in Brooklyn, plants, Useful Information Tags: Brooklyn Botanic Garden
Every plant at the BBG has an “accession number, which has information about the year the plant arrived at the garden and what number plant it was that year (e.g., the 1st to arrive, the 17th, the 641st). So which plant is 890641? The Large-Flowered Magnolia or the Climbing Hemp Vine?
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