How many fourth-graders know what kohlrabi is? Jared Fangman, 10, not only knows what the cabbage family member looks like, but has tried it, though he still likes tomatoes better.
“You have to wash it off first and then take a bite,” he said.
Fangman is one of nearly 190 students at Brookwood Elementary School in Hamilton who participate in the Seed to Plate program, a gardening/cooking club that just received a grant that will enable it to run year-round.
For the past three years, Brookwood has tended an outdoor garden on campus at 1325 Stahlheber Road that produces tomatoes, carrots, strawberries, potatoes, and more organic produce in the warmer months. Thanks to a $3,000 grant for a Toolbox for Education program through the Lowe’s Charitable and Educational Foundation, the school can fund a greenhouse and gardening system that will enable the students to grow fresh produce in the winter months, too.
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By Vivienne Machi
Jan. 29, 2015
Journal News
