tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072087787400599576.post2470197676678025812..comments2018-06-24T13:23:43.168-04:00Comments on Local Food Hub: Ground BreakingGhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08171653046350993840noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072087787400599576.post-85110541453575740312010-05-20T13:00:17.741-04:002010-05-20T13:00:17.741-04:00Mountaintop Montessori has a Garden to Table progr...Mountaintop Montessori has a Garden to Table program with students raising food in the school’s garden and Growing Dome (a geodesic dome greenhouse) and using their produce in a weekly meal for each elementary and middle school classroom. Students take turns planning the meals, cooking them and serving them to the rest of their class. <br /><br />SEED – a summer day camp hosted by Mountaintop – is open to kids from all over the area and gives them a chance to work in the greenhouse, garden and kitchen, and to visit local farms and natural areas. It’s a great opportunity for kids of all ages who don’t many opportunities for those things during the school year. (Many of the ingredients needed for the cooking program at Mountaintop and SEED that aren’t grown at the school are purchased through the Local Food Hub!)<br /><br />The Growing Dome was purchased with grant funds and built with volunteer labor contributed by parents and students. Other schools who are interested are welcome to contact Mountaintop for information about that - it's a great project.<br /><br />Check it out: <br />http://www.mountaintopseedproject.org/<br />http://www.geodesic-greenhouse-kits.com/features.php<br />http://montessoripantops.org/Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10161932202706731254noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9072087787400599576.post-22421043772607265312010-05-19T22:21:07.505-04:002010-05-19T22:21:07.505-04:00Greenbrier Elementary has a variety of things goin...Greenbrier Elementary has a variety of things going on in their gardens. <br /><br />The school has a great courtyard that used to be a wasteland of grass and nothing else. In the past decade or so, parents have put in all sorts of trees, shrubs, flowers, and more. There's an herb garden, as well as several raised beds in which there's always something growing. An after-school 4H/Ecology Club has done a lot of planting and, more recently, the kindergarten and first grades have been doing some planting too. <br /><br />There are plans to keep the gardens going through the summer, with the produce going to families in need.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com