The Youth in Agriculture Program, which is located at the University of Vermont Extension Farm, has been donating extra vegetables to Green Street School for our Thursday Farm stand as a fundraiser for our Garden Program. The students LOVE to make taste tests for customers, debate pricing, count money and make change! They learn a lot of skills from this project. This week we took some students to the UVM Farm to harvest the vegetables they would add to our school garden harvest for sale at the farm stand. Other activities included maki
ng herb sachets, harvesting tomatoes, planting garlic, and making more tomatillo salsa. Here are some quotes from students’ writing about their trip to UVM:"I went to the University of Vermont Extension Farm near Fort Dummer today. We got to harvest all different varieties of peppers, eggplants and kale. The kinds of peppers we harvested were Lipstick Green Pepper, Hungarian Round peppers and another kind of green pepper. We also got to pick ruffly kale and big leaf kale."
"Today at garden time I went with some other children to UVM Extension Farm. There we harvested lots of vegetables such as radishes, peppers, kale, edamame, basil and eggplant. It was a great feeling to be out in the field with all of the plants and learning about each one. I would like to do it
again.""[At the UVM Farm] I picked a big eggplant. It was really big. Then we got to go into the greenhouse. In there we got to pick seeds out of a sunflower."
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