DHS Garden Spring Workday

Volunteers are needed for the DHS Garden Spring Workday on April 19th from 10:00 am – 2:00 pm.  Please join us, DHS students, and community members to help get the garden ready for the growing season, repair the compost bins, and establish a welcoming entryway to the garden.

Find more details and Sign up here or at: http://bit.do/DHSGardenWorkday. 

If you can’t stay the whole time, no problem!  Just come when you can.  We hope to have food at the event both donated by local businesses and contributed by volunteers.  If you are able to bring food, please let us know by emailing us at DexterFarmtoSchool@gmail.com.  Also, if you have tools that might be useful such as a rototiller, extra shovels and rakes, or extra compost and mulch please let us know!

Many hands make light work!  Join us!

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School Food Show

Come see us at the Food Show this Thursday, 3/20, between 6-9 pm!

We’ll have samples of a smoothie made with Michigan-grown frozen blueberries, a presentation about the data we’ve gathered and our progress with Farm to School this year, as well as information about the farmers we’ve worked with this year.  You can even meet a few of the farmers, speak with the Food Service Director, and fill out a feedback survey about your observations about school food and the farm to school program.

We hope to see you there!

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AGC & CPS “Eat What You Grow” School Garden Food Safety Program to Scale Nationally

We learned about the many success of Chicago Public Schools’ Farm to School and School Gardening projects at the Good Food Festival this weekend. It is so exciting to hear from others in our region making HUGE strides in the effort to connect students with where their food comes from, helping them forming life-long healthy relationships with food and agriculture. Way to go CPS! We hope to look like you someday!

Volunteer Opportunity

This month we will be sampling PEARS from Friske Orchards in a fresh pear salad recipe!  Dexter Food and Nutrition will be getting new salad bars into Wylie and Creekside sometime this April, so we are working to introduce a few new items that could go on the salad bars from local farmers.

We’ll try out a Crunchy Pear Salad with pears, celery, pineapple, and sunflower seeds.

Sign up to Volunteer 

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Keep in touch

As the snow starts to melt and seeds get started indoors, more opportunities to help in the school gardens will start cropping up along with the seedlings.  Keep in touch with spring updates by signing up for our Email newsletter.  You’ll get monthly updates, volunteer opportunities, recipes using seasonal foods, articles on farm to school projects from around the country, and more!

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