School Projects

The Food Program maintains the Community School Garden: Food program coordinators and community volunteers work with the school kids, teaching them about gardening, ecology and how to grow food. We also involve the kids in tastings, sometimes cooking on the picnic table what they have just picked. The Food Program also works with the school on a number of projects, such as Applefest and the Fruit tree project.

Orchard Day at the Galiano Community School for the Fruit Tree Project

Friday, January 27th the school kids will be compiling the information they received from their interviews with orchard owners in December, and marking the locations and the good copies onto the giant map. We will be making Applesauce from locally harvested apples too!

Hands on Learning - Fruit Trees

As part of the ongoing fruit tree project a wonderful opportunity has come our way: the chance to learn about planting fruit trees and bushes up at Sunshine Farm.

This coming week both Wed 26th and Thurs 27th we will explore:
* choosing the right site
* what to bring together to mix to encourage rooting and growth
* suitable varieties
* aspects of pruning.

With the help of a backhoe we will be planting Chinese pears, walnut, olive, chestnut, grapes, Saskatoon berry, blueberry and apples. We will also get a chance to help pick apples.

Applefest

Applefest Returns!!

We will be celebrating Apples at the 3rd annual Applefest at the Galiano school on the afternoon of Thursday October 13th from 12:30-3:15.
During the afternoon, we will be juicing local apples with the kids, playing apple related games, hosting an apple tasting, and the teachers will be leading the kids in apple poetry, and an apple art project.

We need a few volunteers to help with the various stations, and to help the kids move smoothly between them. If you can help, call Alison.

Tasty Wednesdays at the School Garden

Drop by the school on Wednesdays at noon to be part of the small, straight-out-of-the-garden feasts that are happening while the harvest is in full swing.

Soup for Kids

Monday, September 19th from 1-3:30pm at the South Hall. Using produced picked by parents, donated by local farms, a group of parents will be making large amounts of soup for Hot lunches to be served at school in the next few of months. Contact Alison (2363) if you’d like to volunteer.

Update: We made 48L of soup, four different varieties: Spinach & Lentil Soup, Zucchini Rosemary Soup, Broccoli & Cheese Soup and Minestrone Soup.

Seniors Soup Garden & Fruit Tree Project

Part of this project was completed with the expanded garden at the school and the raised beds built this past summer by Leo Engelmann and Richard Nathans. New fencing and a new gate was put up by Patrick Sherry and Leo. The vegetables being grown in the raised beds will be used for the Soup for Seniors’ initiative. Another part of this project involves elders working with the school children to identify and inventory the fruit trees and orchards on the island.