Signs of Spring at Newton School
Here we are, in the dead of winter, yet the animals are responding to the increased day length. Chickens have begun laying eggs…
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A School District Digging into Farm-to-School
All four schools in the Windsor Southeast Supervisory Union are keeping busy this winterwith farm to school. Some of the schools…
Sharon: A Yummy Place to go to School!
December was a busy month for taste tests at Sharon! The fourth graders started us off with awonderful Tuscan Smoked Turkey…
Newbury News!
We finished up our farm-to-school planning grant, and in the December request for news already reported on our grand finale, the Harvest…
Putting the Garden to Bed, And Reading!
In recent years, Marion Cross sixth graders read the inspiring little book, “Seedfolks.” Thisbook is a story of the creation of a…
A Lesson from the Harvest
The Harvest Lessons Program on Whole Grains was led by Woodstock High School students that are taking the course, Locally Grown. The students…
Local Harvest Pot Luck Celebration!
As our Farm-to-School Planning Grant winds down here at Newbury Elementary School, one of our culminating initiatives was to host a Farm-to-School…
A Market with a Mission
Barnard Feast and Field Market willhost a holiday market and fundraiserfor Barnard’s Farm-to-School Program December 18 at the Barnard Town Hall from 4:30-7:30…
Giving Thanks the Old Fashioned Way
Grades 3, 4 and 5 launched their Colonial Studies unit with an authentic Colonial Thanksgiving. Families prepared dishes at home to contribute to the…
Fundraising Made Fun!
Randolph Elementary hosted a Harvest Festival in October to help fund local foods for our cafeteria. Art students made chili bowls to…
Planning for the Future of Farm to School at Newton
In addition to the normal late fall activities of taste-testing blue Hubbard squash and putting gardens to bed, we have also…
Willing Hands and Giving Bowls in Norwich
Marion Cross Elementary students in Norwich dedicated their fall harvest to soup ingredients for the “Giving Bowls” fundraising event that was held in…