Working with students: June 2022 update

The Vegetable Project brings learning opportunities built around doing and touching and tasting and experiencing to hundreds of Albany students each year. The 2021-2022 school year has been an exceptionally busy period. Many thanks to all the volunteers, teachers and young people who made it all a success.
StudentsSchoolWhenActivity
20Abrookin Career & Technical CenterJune 2022Touch-and-taste walk-around garden visit with two culinary 1 classes.
30Albany High SchoolJune 2022Touch-and-taste walk-around garden visit with six environmental science classes. Overlap with earlier entry avoided.
30Abrookin Career & Technical CenterApril through June 2022Shed building in two construction classes.
20Friendship Garden (at Delaware Community School)April 2022Milk jug greenhouses after-schoool.
Albany International CenterApril 2022Set up worm composting bins in two English-as-a-new language environmental science classes. Counted previously.
125Myers Middle SchoolApril 2022Milk jug greenhouses with five seventh-grade family and consumer science classes.
40Delaware Community SchoolMarch 2022Milk jug greenhouses with two fifth-grade classes.
15Boys & Girls Club (at Delaware Community School)March 2022Milk jug greenhouses with after-school program.
13O'Neill School of ExcellenceMarch 2022Milk jug greenhouses with self-contained class.
75New Scotland ElementaryMarch 2022Milk jug greenhouses with three first-grade classes.
60Albany International CenterMarch 2022Milk jug greenhouses with two English-as-a-new language environmental science classes.
125Myers Middle SchoolMarch 2022Milk jug greenhouses with five eighth-grade family and consumer science classes.
Albany High SchoolFebruary 2022Milk jug greenhouses with two self-contained classes previously counted
10Myers Middle SchoolDecember 2021Bulb-planting with self-contained class.
125Myers Middle SchoolDecember 2021High-volume pea shoot starting with five seventh-grade family and consumer science classes with follow-up two weeks later making salad and dressing.
75Albany High SchoolDecember 2021 to June 2022Set up worm composting bins in six environmental science classes and ongoing care and exploration.
25Albany International CenterNovember 2021Flower bulb planting with two English-as-a-new-language classes.
12Albany High SchoolNovember 2021Flower bulb planting with self-contained class.
13Albany High SchoolNovember 2021Flower bulb planting with self-contained class.
5Albany High SchoolOctober and November 2021Touch-and-taste walk-around garden visit with English-as-a-new-language class. Follow-up seed starting in classroom
24New Scotland ElementaryOctober 2021Flower bulb planting with four self-contained classes.
25Albany High SchoolOctober 2021Touch-and-taste walk-around garden visit in with English-as-a-new-language class.
14New Scotland ElementaryOctober 2021Fall garden-cleanup.
75Myers Middle SchoolSeptember through June 2022After-school Garden Club since September
17Abrookin Career & Technical CenterSeptember, October, November 2021Touch-and-taste walk-around garden visit, follow-up harvesting and indoor seed starting with culinary 2 and 3 class.
100Myers Middle SchoolSeptember and October 2021Touch-and-taste walk-around garden visits with five eighth-grade family and consumer science classes. Follow-ups with smaller groups.
1,073Total studentsSeptember 2021 through June 2022