Monthly Archives: November 2011

The Harvest-to-Home Giveaway

By Geoff Palla | Published: November 29, 2011
When the bell rang on Tuesday afternoon, signifying the start of Thanksgiving break, students poured out of the school building to find a table on the front lawn filled with the fruits of their labor from the Edible Schoolyard garden, everything neatly bunched, washed and begging to be taken home. Something that they themselves had [...]
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Greens Over Grains

By Esther Cook | Published: November 18, 2011
Having completed a thorough orientation to the kitchen classroom, our sixth-grade students are ready to begin practicing their cooking skills. The students have all had a lesson in the garden about the domestication of grains and have learned that decisions made thousands of years ago by early agriculturalists resulted in the domestication of such grains [...]
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Digging for Gold

By Elena Garcia | Published: November 15, 2011
Although the treasures are not always golden in color, every sixth grader this year has experienced what is our version of digging for gold.   By the end of the 8-week autumn rotation, nearly every sixth grader has dug up Yukon gold, red skinned, purple skinned, Peruvian purple, and fingerling potatoes.  “Potato!!!” echoes in the garden [...]
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