On Saturday, March 3 from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m., anyone with a willing back and desire to help our school garden grow is invited to come.

In case you haven’t noticed, we are expanding our school garden in order to grow more food for the school’s Farm to Cafeteria Program and Farm to Classroom lessons.  This is a many-phased process with the first being the setting the posts and enclosing the area.

On March 3, we hope to set approximately 30 cedar fence posts and, if there’s time and enough people helping, wrap the whole area with new metal fencing.  We will also be forming new raised beds, spreading wood chips for paths and, if you like to dig, there is still more grass to be removed – virtually something for everyone!

To keep you nourished and invigorated, we will be making sure food and water will be there, too.   And, we are so pleased to announce that FoodMasters and the F.E.A.S.T. Program will be helping to maintain the expanded garden area over the long term.  For that, we are very grateful.

If you would like to help with this project, just show up and dig right in! The following tools would be helpful if you can bring them:  Post hole digger, long steel tamping bar, forks, hoes, mattocks, flat digging spades, shovels, bark forks (for woodchips), wheelbarrows, and extra work gloves.