What happened?
Julius E. Sprauve school president, Ellie Francois, and Rotary Friend extraordinaire Bev Biziewski joined us fo a road trip to Gifft Hill School, to experience first-hand the EARTH (Education And Resiliancy Through Horticulture) program.
The students get chipped trees from Aplundh for earth and mulch, and currently grow lettuce, beets, winged beans, turnips, spinach, okra, peppers, passion fruit, carrots, kale, squash (really BIG squash), bok choi, kalaloo bush, to name but a few. They have traditionally terraced gardens, a bottle wall and Ugandan keyhole garden. It's amazing to see how the fresh fruit and vegetables are incorporated into their culinary program, where with the help of Chef Lori Dudkin, they have made pastries and ice cream and are learning pickling and canning next.
This week we will hopefully install Ian Samuel and Harry Daniel, with more new members to come!
Saturday night (March 28th) is the second annual Blues Blow Out, a non-profit event being held to raise money for both the Sprauve School and the School of the Arts. Let's all come out for a good time and to support our kids!