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AP Environmental Science students cleared the vegetable garden and plant Fava Beans (Vicia faba) as a nitrogen-fixing cover crop to restore the soil for spring and summer planting.

Vicia faba

It is said that Pythagoras, the famous Greek philosopher and mathematician, forbade the eating of fava beans because they contained the souls of the dead

Able Grimmer (Flemish artist, c.1570–c.1619)

Broad beans were a major food of
old Mediterranean civilizations,
particularly for the Romans and Ancient Greeks.

  

Vincent van Gogh -
Peasant woman binding sheaves (after Millet)

  

The Gleaners (Des glaneuses) by Jean-Francois Millet

 Our native plant garden is already starting to show some blooms!

Pale swallowtail, Papilla eurymedon on California Lilacs (Ceanothus spp.)