Wednesday, July 22, 2009

kid-grown local food

Have you visited our Farm Camp? No? Holy cow, why not? It's utterly remarkable. Click here for much more. Meantime, here's a message that went out to all the FV staff this morning from John Chartier, the director of the farm program:
The farm campers dug 150 pounds of potatoes this week! I am putting about 20 small bags of them in admin for you to buy. The rest we are going to either use at the farm or sell to parents at check-out.

In case you didn't know the money from farm produce/egg sales are used to fund the Farm's partnership with the YMCA of Madagascar. The YMCA of Madagascar offers agricultural programming to help the farmers there adapt more sustainable and productive agricultural practices. We have supported this partnership out of farm camper revenue the past few years and would like the $1500 that we send them this year to be 100% supported by veggie and egg revenue. Coming soon there will be sweet corn! I hope that you all enjoy the kid-grown local food.