Planting Rice: part 2

Several students from Mrs. Cameron/Mrs. Davis' class helped plant the rice.

First they put rocks on the bottom, then six inches of soil.

We're planting in an old cooler (thanks Ross family) so that we can roll it indoors during days in which it will be cooler than 70 degrees.  

Our rolling "rice paddy" has four inches of water above the soil line.

We sprinkled in the seeds and they sank to the soil.  They're supposed to take root.  Thanks to Mrs. Legakis for taking up the challenge of how we might grown rice here at Shorecrest.  Rice, after all, was grown in Colonial America and is one of the main food staples for the world's peoples.