Category Archives: Kitchen
The Sixth Grade Kitchen Orientation
We can truly feel autumn in the air now as the sixth grade math/science classes finish their eight-week introduction to the garden. The students, who will return to the garden in January, will spend the rest of their time before the winter recess exploring the kitchen classroom with their humanities teachers. On their first day [...]
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Monday’s Tomato Harvest
This year, we are growing about 20 different varieties of tomatoes in the garden. All of them are considered “heirlooms” except for two hybrid varieties: Early Girl and Sun Gold. We built a temporary fence around the tomato patch to keep out the deer, which has greatly increased the bounty of our harvest. With the [...]
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Summer at the Edible Schoolyard
Now that our summer program and training academies have concluded, the kitchen classroom is closed as the King custodial staff waxes the floors, the office is preparing for a new year of volunteers and community events, and the garden staff finally has time to spend the entirety of the day cultivating, planting, and harvesting the [...]
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A Day to Beat All Days!
We had quite a day at the Edible Schoolyard today. Our summer program is still running at full speed and they started off the day by playing Capture the Flag in the garden. This got the kids very excited as they ran, jumped, rolled, crawled and plotted to get the other teams flag. While the [...]
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First Potato Harvest
One of the garden crews was assigned the adventurous task of harvesting potatoes! First, the students pulled the potato plant – leaves, roots, and all – out of the ground. A few small potatoes were still connected to the plant and easily harvested this way. Then, with gloves on, the students dug around in the [...]
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First Day of Summer… A Forager’s Paradise
At 9:00am this morning, almost thirty students arrived at the ramada for the first day of our summer program. Everyone picked a garden or kitchen name for the week (“Peter Pestle,” “Alicia Amaranth,” “Salvador Spoon,” and “Rayleen Radish” were some of the favorites). The group was then divided into garden and kitchen crews. The garden [...]
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Memories from the 8th Graders at the Edible Schoolyard
Every spring, the eighth graders at King come to the Edible Schoolyard to make pizza in the wood-burning oven. They participate in three stations during the class. One is to thresh and winnow wheat and grind it into flour using a mortar and pestle or our grain bicycle. Before they get to the oven, the [...]
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The Olive Harvest