Garden to Cafeteria Spotlight: Carl Cozier

May 31, 2018 | Blog

Ms. Maria couldn’t believe how quickly the salad was eaten– the kids love kale! Carl Cozier’s food service lead Maria Moench made sure that the kale, harvested from the Cozier school garden by Mrs. Conlon’s second graders, became part of a tasty Plant Part Salad. By...

4th Grade Food Detectives

May 31, 2018 | Blog

“I used to think that my parents were mean when they kept me from eating junk food, now I know they do it because they love me,” observed one 4th grader in a recent Pure Food Kids workshop. Our students are investigating ingredient labels and nutrition facts, learning...

Fisher Elementary

May 31, 2018 | Paused & Former School Garden Locations

  Thanks to avid support from the school administration and PTA, a garden site was set aside when Fisher was rebuilt in 2017. Fisher began cooking with Common Threads in December 2017, and built their garden in March 2018. Thanks to generous community donations,...

Kulshan Middle School

May 30, 2018 | School Program Pages

The Kulshan Middle School garden was started in 2015 with support from Common Threads. The garden was sheet mulched and pieced together from donated items, many coming from Happy Valley school which was dismantling their garden during school reconstruction. A generous...