Thanks to the 7th Grade class at San Domenico School, of Sleepy Hollow, for participating in one of many educational farm days this spring with Marin Organic School Lunch and Gleaning Program. Also, thanks to Farmer Warren Weber and farm manager Doug Gallagher for allowing Star Route Farm, of Bolinas, to become an outdoor, working classroom. Its always fun to spend a day using nature as the active teaching tool.
After learning, sharing, playing, and questioning the arts and sciences of a small scale organic farm, all 48 students demonstrated their farming potential and helped to glean the last of the winter chard crop, tucked away near the back of the farm, otherwise left to be turned back into the lineage of fertile soil.
What was truly fun for me is sharing this gleaned chard with other school chefs around the county. The first four chefs I offered it to said 'yes please' and were quick to share with their kitchen staff that 'it was harvest by San Domenico students'. What I wish to express is the all encompassing tasks of educating, working with food, sharing and generating community support and cooperation is really what motivates our work for this program.
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Chester Densmore
Marin Organic School Lunch and Gleaning Program Associate
