Potato Planting at the School Garden!

The kindergarten and first grade classes were the first student group to plant something in the new school garden!
 We walked up this afternoon and had beautiful weather for potato planting. Click here for the full story and more pictures!

Success!

The Garden Groundbreaking Event was a huge success! Thank you Ms. Donovan and Mrs. Muller for helping coordinate the vent, to all the classes that made the trek up the hill, and thank you to the many Organic Valley employees that showed their support by taking the time to come.

Garden Updates: Noelle Kehoe, OV employee, is on board to help us enter into the Chefs Move to Schools program!  

Efforts continued yesterday on our existing garden features. Mr. Wright's Plants and Soils class was back to continue their work on the raised beds. Some kids helped "liberate" the growing aspargus spears from their weedy beds!  That's now two down and one to go. Thank you Raspberry C. for serving as project photographer. And congratulations to Andras G. for providing the first officially approved garden related community service time.

Stay tuned for news about an official garden groundbreaking ceremony! 

If you are interested in helping out with the La Farge School Garden project, there is follow-up meeting tentatively scheduled for Monday, April 2nd at 6pm. 

School Garden Update

The asparagus is coming up in the school's rapidly expanding garden!
Mr. Wright's Soils class has been working with the Wellness Committee's School Garden group, and we have growing participation from Organic Valley, Farm Links, Americorps Farm to School Initiative, and other local school groups. Check back often for more updates!

Breaking News!

Leif, Peggy, and Meaghan from the Wellness Committee met this morning to complete a $2000 School Gardens Grant from the Whole Kids Foundation.

We'll find out in February what the status of the grant is. In the meantime, here's a preview of what our future school garden could look like! Thanks to Leif for designing the layout.

We'll keep you posted!

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