Vegetable Project

A pile of snow on the ground today doesn’t change the fact that spring is on the way. And we are getting ready for it.

We have been starting seeds indoors for three weeks now, not so much to produce plants that will go outdoors as to put our Garden Club students through some important paces – noting in our journal what we plant, watering, carefully observing when we experiment, such as by trying the same seeds in different media. We’re also getting ready for spring by thinking now about what

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We are often asked what we do with food that we grow. The basic answer is kids come first.

As much as anything else, we simply turn to the students who are in the garden – during our Garden Club, for example – and ask, “Want to take something home?” Continue reading →

          Brief moments in our garden behind Myers Middle School in Albany, N.Y., can go a long way toward explaining what we’re doing. And so each of the Vegetable Project’s adult volunteers probably has an anecdote that captures some of our purpose and some of our accomplishment. One of my recent favorites is from September, just after school opened, when we took class after class out to walk around our heirloom tomatoes and sweet potatoes and cucumbers and beans and squash and many different leafy greens. Continue reading →