Vermont School Garden

A visit to a Vermont public school garden through the seasons.

Youth Services Help Maintain our Summer Garden

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boys weedingWe had an awesome crew of boys from Youth Services to help us keep the garden weed- free this summer. Squash, tomatoes, cucumbers and kale were harvested for the school summer lunch program. The boys brought their own special brand of energy and humor with them and they got a lot done under the direction of their crew leader, Weston. At the end of their summer work, they learned how to make pickles using our garden produce and they cooled off (it was a very HOT summer) with raspberry kale smoothies. We hope they’ll come back to visit the garden.

cooling off while mulching head dunking weeding and mulching meeting area Youth Services crew harvests and weedsslicing cukes filling and labeling pickle jars 2 pickling- All produce from our gardenfinished pickles

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Author: vermontschoolgarden

I have been an elementary teacher at the Westminster Center School for 30 years. For most of those years, I maintained a garden as part of my teaching curriculum resource. Now I am the Garden Coordinator for all of the Westminster Center School classrooms.

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