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About Farm to Table
Farm to Table is a before and after school club that meets in the school garden where students can learn with their hands: gardening, nutrition, cooking, sustainability, stewardship, resourcefulness, recycling, composting… you get the idea. It’s a place to learn outside of our classrooms and create a bond with nature and respect for our world that will mature with these kids. This year has an added emphasis on rehabbing more of our school’s neglected garden space.
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Here we go a’wassailing!
Never have I ever encountered so many people in my current friend circle (since moving) that didn’t know what Wassail was! I LOVE this warm fall spiced drink and am creating a little army of children who do too. I set out on a quest, with the kids, to find a favorite wassail recipe. You’ll find after doing your own google search that there are many ways to make it and therefore, they are not equal to receive praise. I picked a handful of recipes with differing ingredients and put the kids to to the task. Keep in mind, I have a faithful crew from our club that come every…
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Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
How lucky we are to have access to an oven on our campus! (Cafeteria regulations do not permit use of the school cafeteria.) Previously, our students scooped and cleaned pumpkin seeds. After that meeting, I gave the seeds a quick 10 minute boil with a touch of salt and then laid them out to dry. For our second Farm to Table meetup, the kids were ready to roast their harvest. I divided my now 14 students into 3 groups and gave them instructions to drizzle a little olive oil over their bowl of seeds and stir until they had a light sheen. Then they added some salt and pepper to…
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October Journal- Pumpkin Seed Scooping
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October Journal- Pumpkin Seed Scooping
Thursday #1 I came out of this day with clean hands! Amazing for a day of pumpkin scooping, am I right? With 12 zealous kids there was little room for my own hands in the mix, and that was okay. I enjoy watching eager kids get after it and work together! The majority of the students before me were students that wanted to come back and continue with the club this fall. Seeing that they hadn’t experienced a full year with the club (we started in January last year), and they were pretty well oriented already with our routines and work ethic, I was happy to have their enthusiasm as…
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Roasting Pumpkin Seeds
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You’re here to meet me, and that’s just nice of you!
“Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.” 1x, 10x’s, 100’s, How many times do I think this in a week alone? This saying sums up my mentality towards everything in life right now. For this blog, it applies to the sliver of my life I’m devoting to a handful of elementary students and my school garden. I’m here because I feel that through the different elementary schools I’ve been a part of, the gardens consistently go to the weeds, aaand maybe stay there for awhile (we won’t add up the time). Is this reasonably familiar? I’m here to blog my way through my experimental ideas and strategies to rehab my school’s garden using small…
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About Farm to Table
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The Original Farm to Table Startup
….and the steps to make your own happen. I arrived on my campus in time for their first year of being a Leader in Me campus. It’s a program that takes Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and strives to instill this motivational mindset in kids. One of the big overarching themes of Leader in Me schools is that they turn over and create a lot of leadership roles for students. Teacher sponsored clubs, before or after school is one of the carriers to bring kids through the 7 principles. Now hold on, If you’re a teacher I know you caught the part where I said teacher sponsored clubs, before or after school. Before…
