Things have been busy here at Food For Thought so there’s a bit of updates in store. Our first field trip to the Reading Terminal Market was a huge success. See for yourself!
The students went on a scavenger hunt where they asked vendors questions about their products like where their ingredients come from, why their food [...]

We are into our second week of Food For Thought riding out the feverish heat and working hard as usual.
Students returned to the farms after a long weekend to get their hands dirty.
Nothing “beets” harvesting at Charlestown Farm.
The Kimberton farm group got a lesson on mulching eggplants.
In the afternoons half of the group recharges by [...]

With the help of Ms. Emilie a few budding photographers are taking some incredible shots of Food For Thought in action. Here are a handful from the bunch on our first week at work.
Above is a group working at Sankanac Farm.
Melissa, the manager at Charlestown farm teaches the group about weeding.
One of our students Harold [...]

ANSWER: ALL OF THE ABOVE!
As you can see in the pictures below, the new garden at the Potter Senior building at Eagleview was launched today with a lovely hands-on ceremony involving gardeners of all ages. After a short introduction by Triskeles staff, Clemens Pietzner and Mark Birdsall, Robert Hankin of the Hankin Group and State [...]

Only in the paths, it seems, at the Park Spring garden!  Some residents came to work and weed Thursday evening, but since we did such a good job of mulching the beds last week, there were few weeds inn the beds and the garden is growing beautifully after Wednesday’s rain. As you can see . [...]

Well, OK, those are the seed leaves of a newly-sprouted plant, not a creature from outer space. But when the plant is a giant pumpkin vine–even the seed leaves are big.
Oh–the rest of the garden is doing well too!

The Triskeles crew visited the great youth at the Germantown Hope Community Church again on Wednesday, June 9th, bringing some more container gardens (to supplement those they built), organic potting soil, plants, and seeds.
Since they had previous experience, we let them do all the work. The teens got right to work, setting up the CG’s, [...]

Friday of Memorial Day Weekend–what else are you going to do?  Get out there and get those plants in the ground.
A great crowd of staff and parents joined the kindergartens and Triskeles to plant four new beds with healthy veggies and some flowers. Oh–don’t forget the big pumpkin mound.
(link to more pictures is at the [...]

NOT THE DEDICATED GARDENERS AT PARK SPRING
It was bright and sunny when we started planting. After the lettuce, cabbage, onions, flowers, tomatoes, and a few other things were in, the clouds rose majestically and it rained: warm but steady. Did we quit?? NOOOO   Everyone kept planting, and had a lot of fun, actually.
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