Hello Everyone! This month in Farm to School we are learning how to use clues like color, and plant part (root, stem, leaf, fruit), to understand what food will give our bodies. For example, the leaf’s job for its plant body is to absorb sunlight (a lovely job…) and transform that sunlight into energy, a […]
January Farm to School – Snap Attack Squash
Hello South Burlington Community! January’s Farm to School lesson was focusing on how foods can help you glow, go, and grow! After our herbal medicine lesson in December, this month we’re recognizing foods, as well, for their medicinal qualities. We also focused on cooking tools such as the mortar and pestle, the Japanese powdering bowl, […]
December Farm to School- This month is getting cozy!
Hi Everyone! Farm to School this month is getting cozy! With our long winter approaching, it’s important to know how to adopt hygge practices. Hygge (pronounced hoo-gah) is a Scandanavian concept, meaning a sense of coziness that leads to contentment and wellbeing. Hygge may involve the use of candles or warm lighting, good food with […]
Support Common Roots on Giving Tuesday
Help Common Roots Grow Fresh Organic Food for the South Burlington Food Shelf Support Food Education and Access. Donate to Common Roots on Giving Tuesday. December 3rd, 2019. Thank you! Please think of us during the upcoming giving season! Giving Tuesday is December 3rd, 2019, and your gift would help us sustain and […]
November Farm to School-The Trees That Made Vermonters
Hi everyone! This month in Farm to School we are focusing in on our senses and tasting our way back in time, to better understand a two foods that have shaped our culture and landscape here in Vermont. Sugar Maple trees have been here long before this place was ever called Vermont. This month […]
