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…

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…