The Edible Classroom

We’re having a party! Join us for an unforgettable evening in the garden! Your support helps us achieve our mission of enhancing academic achievement, healthy lifestyles and environmental stewardship through garden-based learning! 🌻 : Saturday, October 12th 🌸 : 5:30pm - 7:30pm 🌱 : Lafayette Elementary School Garden Tickets: https://lnkd.in/erybU9dS School District of Lancaster COLUMBIA BOROUGH SD Penn Manor School District

We are excited to announce that we are partnering with another School District of Lancaster elementary school this fall! This past Tuesday, Wickersham Elementary students participated their very first garden education lesson! Second grade students helped build an African Keyhole Garden. They used cardboard and sticks to suppress the grass, filled the bed with soil and added a compost bin in the center. The compostables will add nutrients back to the soil to grow healthy plants! Stay tuned as the students work together to create their school garden! School District of Lancaster Wickersham Elementary School

Mrs. Bechtel's classes were back in action Wednesday in their garden at McCaskey High School. It was a bountiful harvest: 13 lbs. of carrots, 7 lbs of peppers, and 3 lbs. of cherry tomatoes! We discussed how few steps it took to get the produce from the garden to our table. Everyone enjoyed Carrot Pancakes, an Edible Classroom favorite. Extra produce went back to the classroom to use in an upcoming cooking lesson and some went home in bags with students to share with their families. School District of Lancaster

We are so grateful for the wonderful interns who worked with us this summer. It’s our pleasure to highlight Moana from the PSSI program at Franklin & Marshall College!

Wow! The gardens give us so much: Beets, beans, okra, tomatoes, cucumbers, and eggplant. We’re so thankful for everyone who supports our mission and helps us keep the gardens tended and watered so we have such bountiful harvests! It was a wonderful afternoon of sharing these fruits and veggies with our community. School District of Lancaster

They hit it out of the park Saturday night at the Lancaster Stormers game! Thank you for providing us a space to meet new friends and connect with familiar faces! A few fun stories: 🌱Earlier in the summer, we participated in Oregon Dairy Days, sharing free seeds with those who stopped by our table. A new friend we met there also stopped by our table last night and said she has lots of flowers growing from the seeds she received at Oregon Dairy Days. Last night, she was thrilled to see pea seeds in her native language, Swahili ! 🌱A young lady visited our table and shared that she still has the aloe plant she received when she was in preschool at KPrep! We hope you all had as much fun as we did at the game last night!

We wrapped up our camp season at Park Elementary School COLUMBIA BOROUGH SD! Campers completed their STEM project- a rain catchment system off the shed roof. They designed a variety of water walls to experiment with the flow of water. Allen Miller of the THE COLUMBIA WATER COMPANY took campers and families on a tour. He also visited camp and shared how he works hard to make the water clean for Columbia residents. We are so grateful for all of our sponsors who helped make this camp so special: Kleen-Rite Corp. Susquehanna Chrysler Dodge Jeep Ram Robin Gamby and Jack Gamby, Discover Columbia PA, Majik Columbia RTO Penn State Health, PENNSYLVANIA HEARTLAND HERB SOCIETY, Lancaster County STEM Alliance COLUMBIA BOROUGH SD

Our students interns Marlena, Miah, Zury and Janyiha worked hard harvesting corn from the Columbia Hill Campus Community Garden. Today, we delivered three dozen ears of corn to The Columbia Food Bank Borough of Columbia Penn State Health

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We’ve been having a blast at the Columbia Middle School-Taylor Campus Garden camp this week! Campers brainstormed and sketched their ideas around how to catch rainwater to reuse, experimented with how gravity impacts the flow of water, observed evaporation in action, harvested fresh veggies, cooked up delicious zoodles, created a DIY rain barrel out of a trash can and made herbal bath bombs thanks to support from the PENNSYLVANIA HEARTLAND HERB SOCIETY! Many thanks to Robin and Jack Gamby for their generous donation to support our Columbia Borough camps! Columbia Borough School District