Monday, November 21, 2011

Sowing Seeds Snapshots and Upcoming Harvest Dinner with Kelly Liken!

With Thanksgiving around the corner, it's the perfect time to update you on all of the produce our Sowing Seeds kids have been harvesting this fall! Sandy Story, director of Sowing Seeds, sent us these photos and captions to help paint a picture of what's happening in the world of our little gardeners.



This is Drew, a 2nd grader at BCES.  Each week the 2nd grade class spends time harvesting the cherry tomatoes for the lunchroom salad bar.

Late October - the 4th grade class at Edwards Elementary cleaned out the vegetable debris in the newly planted raised beds.  They are excited about composting and how the compost bin works. 
Sutton Delong, 2nd grader at BCES harvest the pickling cucumber for the classroom lesson on pickles.  Each student made a jar of refrigerator pickles to take home.
Sam has been visting the greenhouse for 2 years so he has become quite the expert on seed tray planting.  It is his favorite activity in the greenhouse! And he is really very good at it.
These girls just finished harvesting one of the enormous pumpkins growing in the greenhouse and are enjoying a snack of strawberries while they carefully plant the next tomato crop.

Next week, Kelly Liken, executive chef and owner of Restaurant Kelly Liken, will be creating an exquisite four-course menu for the Sowing Seeds Harvest Dinner on Sunday, December 4. Your seat at the dinner will help us reach our goal of $50,000 to allow for new greenhouses and ensure that Sowing Seeds reaches every part of our Valley. Sue and Jim Liken along with Margie and Tom Gart will match donations up to $25,000, and kids from the program will be present to share their experiences and enthusiasm! RSVP is required by November 23, please email Lindsey Myers at lmyers@vvf.org to let us know if you plan to attend!


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