Getting your full serving of veggies isn't too hard these days at Laraway. Every Wednesday, Laraway School students spend the morning working with the land at our on-site farm, a program called Farmer On-Site. Each class completes a specific farm task. The past few weeks have been focused on bringing in a bountiful harvest. We have collected over 800lb of potatoes, beets, onions, beans, tomatoes, zucchini, carrots, cabbage, squash, and elderberries- a pretty significant increase in production from previous years! Youth, school, and land steward staff have started the mornings with a check-in and quick game (we have been focusing on name games so far for the beginning of the year). Instructions are given and then everyone participates in garden tasks. The groups have ended with washing and weighing produce on our brand new scale, using their math skills to add up how much of each veggie was picked. Sometimes the kids will also carry their harvests directly to the kitchen, where our kitchen staff turns them into tasty breakfasts and lunches. YUM!
Article and photos by Ginny Cooke, Land Stewardship Americorps VISTA
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| Beautiful, bountiful, beets |
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| A day's harvest |
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| One BIG beet |
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| A medley of green and purple string beans |
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| Quite the carrot! |
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| What 1.4lb of carrot looks like |
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| Harvesting cabbage |
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| Cabbage bounty |
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| Squash art |
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