Monthly Archives: September 2010

The Return of the Milkweed

By Sasha Harris-Lovett | Published: September 28, 2010
Last spring, three small milkweed plants sprouted up in the middle of one of our garden beds.  We dug the milkweed up when we cultivated the bed, but not before carefully saving seeds from these fuzzy, silvery plants and nursing them to germination in our greenhouse.  Our intention was to plant the new milkweed starts [...]
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It’s Worth the Wait

By Jonah Mossberg | Published: September 21, 2010
This week, 6th graders were welcomed to their first hands-on garden class of the year. Together, students have been working to build and turn compost, care for young plants in the greenhouse, cultivate beds that will soon be planted with broccoli and cabbage, and harvest many of late summer’s offerings. While digging potatoes, cutting lettuce, [...]
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A Historic Waste-Not-Want-Not Tradition from Tuscany

By Esther Cook | Published: September 14, 2010
The sound of 30 voices yelling “panzanella!” was the rallying call heard in the kitchen today. Our esteemed 8th graders, most with two years of kitchen experience under their belts, were back and getting right to work combining our fall harvest of tomatoes, cucumbers, summer squash, basil, and shallots with vinaigrette and day-old bread to make the [...]
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Summer Rewards

By Sasha Harris-Lovett | Published: September 2, 2010
Months of cool, coastal fog receded into scorching, late-summer heat just as the Edible Schoolyard staff came back to the garden and kitchen to prepare for the upcoming school year.  In the garden, we were met with a delightful surprise: a massive, beautiful, undisturbed pumpkin hidden amongst the thriving foliage in the back of the [...]
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