Lower School Dumpling Day!

Kindergarten celebrated their 2^nd Annual Dumpling Day on November 9, marking a unique collaboration between Lower School Science and World Languages disciplines.  This garden-to-table project involved Kindergarten students harvesting the cabbage that they grew from seed in the Lower School Garden, and using it as the main ingredient in preparing Asian vegan dumplings. Lower School Mandarin Chinese teacher, Bertina Hsu Miller taught the students how to fill and fold the dumplings.  They were thoroughly enjoyed by all.

Let them Eat Salsa! MS Green Ambassadors Cook up a Spicy Batch

Maura Sourman, Middle School Nature Programming Coordinator and science teacher, spent some long hours this fall making salsa  - a garden to table initiative by the Middle School Green Ambassadors.

The US New Community Project partners with Urbanstead Philadelphia

The New Community Project spent the day at an urban farm in Philadelphia with their project partner -  Urbanstead, a not-for-profit in Philadelphia dedicated to eradicating food-deserts in urban environments.  Urbanstead’s vision is to support the development of community-driven urban farm projects in Philadelphia that support food justice, local entrepreneurship, stewardship of the urban ecosystem, and community support networks. With training in innovative urban agricultural practices, strong partnerships, expertise in garden development and at-risk youth empowerment, we are poised to foster successful urban farming initiatives throughout Philadelphia in order to improve food access, green infrastructure, and economic opportunity.  You can read more about the organization by clicking here. 

Preserve Day 2015

Students, parents and faculty spent a beautiful autumn morning in GA's outdoor spaces cat tailing, birdwatching, making art, sampling GA garden to Table home made salsa, and building small scultures in the new Lower Scool outdoor making space - The Nature Nook.

Lower School Students Deliver Turnips to Chef Luke from The Community Garden

Project Acorn: A Lower School and Middle School Collaboration Project

Inspired by an email from the Middle School inviting classes to support Project Acorn, kindergarten teacher, Gina Brown took her students to the Quad on a beautiful fall afternoon to collect acorns, but not before reading Chipmunk at Hollow Tree Lane to the class. Project Acorn is a Middle School Green Ambassador initiative designed to gift every graduating senior an oak seedling grown from a Quad acorn. The sentiment is that, even though they are going out into the world, their roots will always be at GA.  The  children proudly delivered some of the acorns to a Green Ambassador meeting and used the remaining acorns in a fall art project.