Category Archives: Teaching

The Vegetable Project, in partnership with the wonderful Flower Power Fundraising company, is selling flower bulbs through Monday, Oct. 14. And we would be so grateful if you would take a look at the selection and consider buying a few bulbs. Please click here to find everything you need.

For example: The days will get shorter. And colder. Winter happens around here. Spring never comes as quickly as we’d like. Planting flower bulbs, however, helps us feel a bit better heading into the long chill. It gives us a great reason to stay outside in autumn’s cool days. And then, it will provide the first burst of color in your garden in the spring.

The Vegetable Project receives half of all proceeds raised by our sale of bulbs. And that means that you contribute to our  work at teaching kids where their food comes from. It means that you support outdoor instruction. It means that you help us make a difference with kids who benefit from doing and touching and tasting and experiencing. And so much more.

–Bill Stoneman

We want to show volunteers – perhaps you – around before they start to water our school gardens this summer. But then we would be grateful if volunteers would use our online signup tool to let us know when we can plan around their commitment. Please click here to sign up to water at Albany High School. And please click here to sign up for Myers Middle School.

But please also reach out at [email protected], so that we can arrange to show you the ropes. And please know that you will be making a big difference when you take a couple of watering shifts beyond your orientation in this volunteer group’s ability to head into the new school year with gardens teaming with teaching and learning opportunities.

Want to lend a hand in the Vegetable Project’s gardens on your own schedule? Won’t you please consider helping to water at Albany High School and/or Myers Middle School from now until early October. Claim a week. Or maybe a day of the week for the summer. Or days that work for you. Either way, you’ll make a big difference in this volunteer group’s ability to head into the new school year with gardens teaming with teaching and learning opportunities.

Please reach out at [email protected] to arrange a garden walkaround and to learn the ropes with one of our veterans. Or go ahead sign up for days at Albany High here and at Myers here. We will get in touch and plan to meet you to get you started. We won’t leave you alone until you are ready. But please understand, the contribution only begins to make a difference as you start working independently and reliably.

Many thanks for 14 years of great support for our efforts.

–Bill Stoneman

The Vegetable Project’s seventh annual Evening in the Garden will be at Myers Middle School this year, on Tuesday, May 7 (rain date the following day, Wednesday, May 8). We sure are looking forward to showing you what is growing, sharing with you about our work to create hands-on learning opportunities, offering a few hands-on learning opportunities right there and introducing you to knowledgeable growers who are eager to share their expertise.

And there won’t be another party like this one until the spring of 2025 – at New Scotland Elementary School.

If that doesn’t sound like enough, you’ll also enjoy the fabulous sounds of the Albany High School Jazz Ensemble and sample tastes of some of the best food around, provided by Albany High School’s Career and Technical Education culinary program, Allie B’s Cozy Kitchen, Bountiful Bread, Caffe Italia Ristorante, Cardona’s Market, the Copper Crow, Dove and Deer, Honest Weight Food Co-op and Nicole’s Catering.

The bash is from 5:30 to 7 p.m. at the garden behind the school building.

We would be pleased if you would let us know that you are coming at Eventbrite or our Facebook event.

We would be grateful if you would stand up and be counted as a friend of our efforts to build teaching and learning around doing and touching and tasting and experiencing by becoming a member of the event’s honorary committee. We will include your name in an event program when you make a $25 contribution. Again, please visit Eventbrite.