Springtime Preschool in the Garden

Springtime Preschool in the Garden

Heading up the path to meet her parents, Sienna remarked that her least favorite part about camp is that the week “is too short”… She’s right, of course. We all wish Preschool in the Garden could happen every day! The magical gardens, trails...

Assumption Catholic School

Assumption Catholic School’s garden started in 2009, with support from Common Threads. Assumption has a sister school in Cambodia, and the initial idea was to use revenue generated from the garden to support the sister school while at the same time helping students in...
Cooking with Common Threads

Cooking with Common Threads

We had such a great time gardening this fall! Our students learned and experienced so much while exploring the wonders of our school gardens! Now that we’ve pulled in our harvest, planted cover crop and mulched our garden beds for winter, we turn to classroom cooking...
8th Annual Harvest Dinner – a Community Celebration!

8th Annual Harvest Dinner – a Community Celebration!

For our 8th Annual Harvest Dinner, over 100 friends and family celebrated with Common Threads the harvest of crops planted throughout the year, and the role of community in growing good eaters! Preparation began many months prior, of course, with cultivating soil and...
Introducing Common Threads’ 2017-18 Americorps Team…

Introducing Common Threads’ 2017-18 Americorps Team…

Common Threads is growing! Our largest Americorps team yet includes Food Educators and also School Farmers, serving collaboratively to ensure community-wide support for thriving school garden learning spaces, increased outreach to families, after-school programs, and...