Since building a large container garden at my daughter’s charter school two years ago I’ve been involved in teaching kids how to prepare fresh produce as well as working with an organization that helps other teachers start gardens at their own schools. School gardens expose children to healthy, locally grown food and can be used […]
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Have you ever tried dicing rhubarb with a plastic knife? “It won’t cut the skin!” the kids in my “food appreciation” classes cried. Well, nobody said learning how to cook was going to be easy. I’m surprised how many people don’t know what rhubarb is and don’t even recognize it in the store. We always […]
Asparagus has a special place in the heart of the vegetable gardener. Being a perenniel, asparagus needs only to be planted once. Then, without much additional care, it will produce an abundance of lovely, fresh spears of asparagus year after year–for 15 years or more. Kids, it turns out, love asparagus as well. They like […]
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