Seattle Tilth Field Trip

My daughters, Kaylin, and Emma, are in a multi-aged classroom together (along with their cousin Lucas) at school. This is the first year that they will be together, because Emma was in Kindergarten last year. It is a large class with 54 students and 2 teachers (along with a bunch of parent helpers). Because of the large class, often there are to many parent volunteers and there is a lottery held for the parents to "get" to go on the field trips with the kids. I "won" the lottery for the first field trip of the year and headed with the class to The Seattle Tilth. As it says on their website "Seattle Tilth is a nationally recognized non-profit educational organization dedicated to inspiring and educating people to garden organically and conserve national resources".

Here is my group of kiddos, Kaylin, Emma, Rami, and Lucas. After this pic, we headed out for our scavenger hunt. We had to try to find things like birds nests, garbage, berries, and bones. I am very greatful that we did not find any bones. Yuck!


Next up we learned about composting! My girls and I were very excited about this because we just got our first compost bin from Sheree. Her neighbor was giving one away, and since she already had one, she was very nice and gave it to us. In the words of Pay "Thanks Sa-wee!".


The kids got to move the leaves from bin to bin and then move the most composted stuff to a new location with a wheelbarrow. Then they carried the hose over to water.


After watering, they covered it all with burlap bags to protect it.


Here is the entire class posing for all of us parents. I hope I get to go on more field trips with them this year!