Exeter seniors plus other students helped create a community garden at the high school where the harvest will be used in the cafeteria in the fall. From left are Claire Garand, Laura Martin, Tierney Standring, Stephanie Szarmach and Kanani Eichholz. Deb Cram photo. Exeter News-letter. Seacoastonline.com
Exeter Community Garden
We’re looking for volunteers to help expand the Exeter Community Garden on May 19th from 9:00 am – 12:00 pm.
The students are looking for donations of time and equipment to help with the garden including:
- Tools- shovels, hoes, spades, soaker hoses, watering cans
- Wheel Barrow
- Small Shed
If you are interested in volunteering either on May 19 or to “adopt-a-garden” for one week over the summer to do water and light weekend, please contact Tracey Miller at tracey@traceymillerwellness.com.
If you would like to donate cash donations to purchase any of the above you can send a check made out to Exeter High School with attention to Deb Kimball with a note “environmental club garden” in the reference line. Checks can be mailed to EHS at 1 Blue Hawk Drive, Exeter, NH 03833.
Citizens for Community Wellness (CCW) is a grassroots group which I helped form in November 2010 to support the Action for Healthy Kids Initiative. It includes school food service directors, parents, teachers, chefs, farmers, students and nutritionists. In addition to supporting community and school gardens, the group is trying to connect local farms to food service directors. A volunteer “food broker” is already helping to negotiate prices, develop seasonal product lists and liaise between the two groups. We also held a screening of the movie FRESH on March 12 at the Seacost Eat Local Winter Farmers’ Market.
To help the food service directors come up with recipes for things like turnips and kale, CCW recently hosted a “food demo” with local farmers, a nutritionist and parents. Food service directors tried kale chips, sautéed kale, a confetti of roasted turnips, beets and carrots, butternut squash and a raw beet salad.
A vegetable garden at the Exeter High School was launched in the spring of 2011 with support from the student Environment Club and volunteers from the community who will be weeding and watering the garden over the summer.
If you have would like to volunteer or be included on our mailing list, please send me an email Tracey at tracey@traceymillerwellness.com to be updated on future events and volunteer opportunities.
Check out pictures of the Exeter Community Garden at:
http://sites.google.com/site/exetercommunitygarden/
Updates:
Service Project Sets Healthy Goals for EHS Dining (Exeter News-letter)
http://www.seacoastonline.com/articles/20110617-NEWS-1011156
The Skies Opened Up for the New Exeter High School Community Garden
