Fort River Garden Soup Day on October 26

This Thursday, October 26th, the Fort River cafeteria will be serving vegetable soup made with the veggies that students harvested from our very own Fort River School garden a few weeks ago. All students will have the opportunity to taste the soup, as this is an important part of the learning cycle for them--to eat the produce that they planted, tended, and harvested. Fort River's kitchen staff will prepare small taster cups of soup for students that day. As always, no student is required to try the soup.

We need volunteers to get the trays of taster cups from the kitchen staff and to walk around the cafeteria, offering/encouraging students to give the soup a try. The volunteers will also be responsible for ensuring that used taster cups make their way to the trash bins.

Click http://frpc.pleasebringit.com/public/vwwIeUGeTzY to sign up for a shift or email Stacey Beganny at stacey.fortriver@gmail.com if you have any questions! Thanks, and don't forget that you must have CORI certification to volunteer at school.

Fort River Garden Party and Tour on May 31 at 5:30pm

The PGO invites you to learn more about the Fort River School Garden

 

El PGO le gustaría invitarle a aprender sobre el jardín de la escuela de Fort River

 

Tuesday, May 31st at 5:30 in the Garden

(located at the northeast corner of the playground)

 

31 de mayo a las 5:30 en el Jardín

(Situado en la esquina noreste del patio de recreo)

 

• Jane Costello will give a garden update and tour

• Jane Costello le dará información sobre el jardín

• Learn how students are using the garden

• Aprende cómo los estudiantes están utilizando el jardín

 

• Find out how you may be able to use the garden

• Averigua cómo se puede utilizar el jardín

• A Spanish translator will be present

• Un traductor español estará presente

 

Light Refreshments will be served

Se servirán refrescos

Edible Perennial Gardening and Landscaping at The Jones Library onApril 5

An opportunity to learn about edible perennials comes to the Jones Library in a presentation about using edible plants in gardens by local naturalist John Root.  Please join us in the Woodbury Room of the Jones Library at 7 pm on Tuesday, April 5, 2016. 

This presentation is a visual one that features the variety of trees, shrubs, vines, canes, and herbaceous perennials that can be grown in New England for bountiful harvests of fruits, nuts, and vegetables. Participants learn how to establish and care for these plants using organic methods of cultivation. Nutritional and medicinal benefits of the plants are discussed as well. Questions and comments are welcome throughout the presentation, and handouts with a list of edible perennial plant species, resources for further study, and recommended plant nurseries are distributed at the conclusion of the program.

This program is sponsored in part by a grant from the Amherst Cultural Council, a local agency which is supported by the Massachusetts Cultural Council, a state agency.

Free and open to the public.  For more information, please contact Janet Ryan at 413/259-3223.