APRIL 27TH, 2010
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In this day and age of schoolyard gardening-mania, the most important lesson I’ve learned in many years of attempting to grow carrots on school property is making sure you have dedicated staff on the site to keep the plants alive when the season changes and the children leave. Another crucial detail is having culinary interest–since kids that want to eat produce are more likely to take care of it.
For that reason, one of my favorite school partnerships comes through the good work of Slow Food NYC and its partnership with grade school “The Children’s Storefront” in Harlem, New York. Working with excellent chefs and a very sweet group of kids, on April 15th we put together the spring group of plantings. Chef Colombe Jacobson is now authoring their blog–you can read all about it here.