We had a incredible field trip to Dar Salam, an Iraqi restaurant on Alberta street! http://darsalamportland.com/
The students delivered herbs to the staff who said they’d like to use the fresh herbs for their salads. We had the opportunity to try freshly made flat bread, tabouli, and tahziki. Checkout some of the photos from our first community delivery, as well as the comments students wrote about the food we tasted at Dar Salam.
Thank you so much to Violetta from Dar Salam for hosting us!
Makin’ stickers ’bout to head over to Dar Salam an Iraqi Restaurant.We’re bringing garlic chives, oregano, thyme, and salad burnette #AWSOMENESS
This was the best day ever we harvested for our families and we even got to plant lettuce. We got to pick collard greens it was so fun. We also had a game were we had to trust each other somebody would stand in the middle of all of us we would stand in a circle and they would trust us and they would lean back and they would get pushed by us. So that was what we did .
We are making pictures we are planning to make our own stickers to label our salad greens that we donate. We are also making posters for the cafeteria
Hello my name is Noah and I attend Gardening club at Vernon school. Today we had a leaf scavenger hunt, we were looking for orach, miners lettuce (which has cool back story), plain old lettuce, garlic chives, parsley, and thyme. We played a game were you had to blindfold yourself and taste plants and guess their names. Then we harvested plants for our salad. We washed and cleaned them too. I went into this class without very high expectations, but today really changed my mindset. I intend on coming back again for more interaction with my community and garden. And now I tell how miners lettuce saved Oregon’s life. During the 1800’s Pioneers had a tough winter food was low and so was there vitamin C. That lead to an outbreak of scurvy. while some weak miners were well mining they came across some weird looking plant they decided to try it, it was amazingly good. And get this its high in vitamin C. And all thanks to good ol’ miners lettuce, so make sure to pig out next time you have miner lettuce salad.
Hi my name is Joana and I am in gardening class.Today was my first day and it was really fun. Me my sister Lyndsey and Sarah blind folded each other and tried different vegetables for a blind taste-test. We all got to harvest and plant lettuce so that we can give it to our community . Me and my sister Noelia both got to pick some vegetables that is going to be on our pizza this week. We picked parsley, thyme, and garlic chives. Today was a really fun day and I cant wait to come again.
Thanks to Sarah Canterberry, and Joana and Noelia for such a wonderful first Harvesting for the Community Garden Club. Looking forward to watching our salad greens grow all season, working together to complete our project, and having fun with students in the garden! Look out for Joana’s first post and some photos from our first day of class in the next few days – Lyndsey
Vernon Garden Spring 2014 