Monthly Archives: March 2010

The Moon in Springtime

By Jonah Mossberg | Published: March 24, 2010
Spring has arrived at the Edible Schoolyard! We greeted last week’s equinox, and onset of the new season, with open arms. It is wonderful to watch the transition out of dormancy and cooler weather. While our mild Berkeley climate keeps the ESY a luscious green oasis straight through the winter, there is truly nothing as [...]
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The Central Kingdom

By Edible Schoolyard | Published: March 22, 2010
This week, the 6th graders learned a traditional Chinese cooking method, stir-frying, using a traditional Chinese cooking pot, the wok. On the blackboard, we wrote the Chinese characters for the name China, which is transliterated as zhong guo and translates into “central kingdom.” The first character, zhong, perfectly depicts its meaning with a vertical line [...]
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Vegetable Curry

By Edible Schoolyard | Published: March 13, 2010
The 6th grade humanities classes have returned to the kitchen for their spring rotation, which journeys through four great civilizations: India, China, Greece, and Rome. For their first lesson back, the students listened to Indian music and learned to make a vegetable curry. Many were surprised to hear that curry is actually a mix of [...]
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Transforming Space

By Sasha Harris-Lovett | Published: March 9, 2010
To most people at King Middle School, the weed-filled, litter-strewn triangle between the garden and the basketball courts was a forgotten piece of land. Students and teachers walked through it and looked over it without ever really noticing it.  Recently, however, garden staff started eying the area more critically after Dave Wilson Nursery generously donated [...]
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