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| Leeks, winter roots, and Kale Rabb from Wildwood Farms |
After last weeks education talk from Wildwood Farms, we wanted to munch on some of their suggested seasonal vegetables. For snack we mixed olive oil and balsamic vinegar into purple, orange, and yellow carrots; along with blue, white, and brown potatoes for an incredible vegetable bake. We also munched nibbled on a variety of breads from the local bakery, Knead.
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| Austyn challenges Gorge Grown Kids |
Austyn, a sophomore at Hood River Valley High School and owner of Austyn's Backyard Garden Produce Stand, shared with us his short history of becoming a local food production entrepreneur. Austyn began gardening as a small child, but really honed his stills at Hood River Middle School, under Mr. Becker's guidance. Austyn is now involved in FFA, has his own produce stand at the local farmers market, and paying off his recently purchased Volkswagen Bug.
Austyn also challenged us to a relay race. Each group had a stack of cards with pictures of items we use everyday - toothpaste, can opener, t-shirt. We had to determine if these items came from a store, earth, farm, or factory. Most the items were placed in the 'store' bucket. However, Austyn helped us realize that all items either came from earth or farms, but we are accustomed to purchasing these items in the store, not realizing where they originate.
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| Richard, Claire, Lucas, Nate, and Muir digging behind HRMS. |
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| Our new weather vane. Head of a panther, tail of a fish. We call it 'Panfish'. |
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| Buffing-out sharp edges on sprinklers |
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"Flowers" by Alexa, Ella,
Sara, and Katlyn |
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| "Floppy the Fish" designed by Levi & Will |
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| MacRae helping Zach install "Zen" |
Today April's showers rained down. However, a little warm rain only brought an elevated level of excitement and fun. We continued installing metal-art sprinkler-installations, secured the new 'Panfish' weather vane, finished plantings seed flats in the greenhouse, and digging holes for various reasons.
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| A perfect day to finish sowing seeds |
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