LEAVES

Welcome to your seed to table journey, starting with LEAVES! Please find below all of the content you’ll need to begin your STEAM based exploration. We suggest reading through our welcome letter below, then lesson plan, followed by our instructional video. You can pause and play as you go for ease of use. Click on any image below for additional supporting materials. 

VIDEO & IMAGES

Spinach time lapse with soil cross section. Revealing both - how spinach leaves and roots grow. Root development is best visible at germination and 30 days in. Those brighter dots in the soil, moving quickly, are saprotrophs - bugs and worms that feed on nonliving organic matter.

See what happens when cabbage decomposes.

Lettuce growing at the farm.

Lettuce growing at the farm.

Leaves in the Fall.

Leaves in the Fall.