2018 has given me wonderful opportunities to expand my adventures with food and garden based education. In addition to working with Mount Kisco Child Care Center and their Feed Me Fresh program, I’ve also been veggie gardening with 1st and 3rd graders at Mt Kisco Elementary School and have an after school garden club there too.
Connecting kids to nature and to real food is important and joyful work. Nothing makes me happier than growing and eating delicious kale with children who grew it themselves. Here’s a recipe that was a huge hit with them: Kale Quinoa Salad.
This past summer my friend, photographer Mey Marple, and I launched a new community garden project, The Mount Kisco Community Garden. It is perfectly located in an area that has some serious hunger issues, so we were looking forward to growing lots of food with our garden members and also donating lots to local food pantries and organizations.
Gardening is not always easy. As a matter of fact, it can be a humbling experience. Our project got a late start, this summer’s weather was not very agreeable and we discovered that there were way too many holes in the garden fence to grow food. We put our garden to bed for the winter with a couple of sheet mulch parties in the fall. And now we’ve gotta get that fence fixed!
This is a busy time of year for asking for donations for non profit organizations. But that’s what I’m doing. Fundraising to get that darn fence fixed before the 2019 garden season. Any amount that you can give to support this project will be greatly appreciated. Here’s the link to our Crowdwise Fence Fixing Campaign and please share it with those you know who are concerned with hunger, healthy food and climate. Yes, climate. Food grown close to home is one way to take a bite out of climate change!
And if you’d like to join our garden for the 2019 growing season, we still have some spots open. Contact Mey to get on the list!
Here’s that link again, I’m counting on you!
https://www.crowdrise.com/o/en/campaign/mt-kisco-community-garden
