Farm-to-School Update
Farm-to-School Update
This month we celebrate local garbanzo beans from Blue Mountain Seed. The Nutrition Services Department will be serving the beans in a delicious soup on Thursday March 20th for lunch and samples will also be available thanks to our devoted tasting table volunteers! Plan to have soup for school lunch to show your support for the farm to school program.
Winter Garden Club just finished up at 4 elementary schools. They enjoyed seed starting and plant measurement, art, weather measurements, farmer visits and installing a compost tumbler at Green Park. Thank you Eleanor Ellis, Americorps garden coordinator for building this program! Spring garden club, open to all students at Sharpstein, Green Park and Prospect Point will be starting after spring break.
Community is invited to join the discussion about the sustainability of School Gardens. Next week, Wednesday March 19th 4:30 at the Public Library, we will hear a summary of information heard from two other school garden programs in WA and hear from WWPS curriculum department about their interest in utilizing school gardens.
For those interested in helping bring students to their school gardens for hands on lessons, trainings did take place at the school district office board room. If you missed these, but would like to volunteer, please contact Beth Thiel or your school's garden coordinator.
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