Good stuff grows on the island….

The flowers and vegetables are looking good!

You’ve seen the little garden across from the middle school/high school…it’s going great! The plot was started this spring by students from the school, led by Albert Strasser (FHHS ’09), who came back from his first year at the University of Colorado to get things started. It’s called the Slow Food Land & Sea Garden…and it had a great growing season. Some of the food will make it’s way to next week’s Community Dinner…another good reason to come by.

From garden to harvest to the school lunch table....

A couple of weeks ago, Linda Degnan Cobos pulled green beans to deliver to the Food for Thought program at the high school (here’s the story on it, from last week).

She reports that there’s still activity at the spot, as we head into the fall! Here’s the report on the Slow Food Land & Sea blog (which includes info about the great work Eleanor and Anna are doing at the local co-op, and how you can join) and she adds that this week, more is happening:

Bruce Robinson will be helping us plant garlic starts he’s donating this week – we’ll donate the finished garlic next year to the Food for Thought lunch program. We think we’ll be planting the garlic this weekend, and we’ll invite people to join in.

We are also planning on harvesting our Ozette and Haida potatoes this week, also for the lunch program. Liz and Andy said they will either use them at lunch, or more likely for a community dinner. These are very special potatoes, with many of the seed potatoes used gathered from the San Juan islands. We’re hoping to have someone from the Makah nation over to talk to us about the potatoes a little later.

There is interesting information about them on the new podiums that Declan made for us surrounding our garden, which are wonderful!!

Growing...

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