The garden on August 14, 2012.

The eggplant, tomatoes, cabbage and cucumbers are growing.

Peppers, cucumbers, and brocolli

Basil, Kale, cabbage, dill, parsley and eggplant

Love the bees!

Parsnips

The pumpkins did not produce, however, lets hope for the beets!

Thinning of the parsnips

The pumpkin patch

One of the two pumpkins!

Parsnips and eggplant

The first cucumber is almost ready to pick.

August is almost here.   Summer garden volunteers and I have been busy gardening at CHS.  It has been exciting to watch the vegetables plants grow.  The garden has provided us with onions, peppers, tomatoes, basil, broccoli and green beans.  Still growing are the carrots, sunflowers, eggplant, parsnips and beets.  What has been frustrating is the squash and cucumbers have a fungus on the leaves.  This has made the bumper crop dwindle down to two small pumpkins and one cucumber :(  Enjoy the pics!

First Taste Test!

Principal Benay from the elementary school, Malletts Bay School, invited our class to design a healthy vegetable recipe and have our class run a taste test during lunch with her students.  With the additional support of our Principal, Food Director Mr. Davis and head cooks from both schools we ran the taste test in early May.  First, we modified a basic parsnip recipe.  Second, ran a sample taste test at our school.  Finally, after careful planning it was go time at MBS.  The taste test was fun and the recipe was successful with a 94% approval rate!  Enjoy the pics of our cooking and the taste test.

 Time to bake 600 samples of Parsnip Bread.

Our main support in the kitchen, Laura.

I approve!

At the taste test.
Officer Fontaine.  Thanks for the reminder about allergies!  

Food director, Mr. Davis surrounded by us!

  

Parsnips...they look like a carrot!

Visiting with the younger students.

Lunch with MBS students.

Presenting a little history and facts about parsnips.