Meet Your Farmer: Forest Farmacy

https://youtu.be/N7Ttv7oRib4 The Forest Farmacy is a 30 acre forest farm nestled in Madison County, NC in the Blue Ridge Mountains. Kat Houghton and Chris Parker bring together their passions for fungus, food sovereignty, healing, soul, myth, mystery, mycelium and re-culturing. The best part of being a farmer for Kat is “being so close to the natural world all the time. We are very dependent on what the weather is doing or what the animals are do…

Meet Your Farmer: Lee’s One Fortune Farm

…weet potato is a different color than the flesh inside. Sweet potatoes are commonly orange on the inside with brownish skin, but they come in many colors. Have your students ever eaten a purple sweet potato? Do they know what other colors sweet potatoes come in (white, yellow, red, purple, brown). As a class, make a list of other fruits and vegetables that can be purple (eggplants, cabbage, carrots, string beans, potatoes, turnips, peppers, figs,…

Cooking Cabbage Apple Quesadillas

https://youtu.be/OXgoxhKK7Wo Kindergarten students from Cullowhee Valley Elementary School cook apple cabbage quesadillas with help from Western Carolina University pre-service teachers and dietitians through ASAP’s Growing Minds Farm to School Cooking Program! Education and nutrition teachers: Use this video as a tool to show students how to conduct classroom cooking demonstrations….

Meet Your Farmer: Smallholding Farm

…while farmer Ellie Goldstein focuses on supplying and supporting the local community with rich produce, like their winter carrots. Find out why winter carrots are their favorite and what it takes to be good stewards of the environment. Smallholding Farm is located in Morganton, NC. “Our vision for the farm is to promote self care and promote this lifestyle that we want for ourselves by putting in a lot of time and resources into the soil health no…

The Story of Growing Minds

https://youtu.be/FJ1fpsqWgw8 Our Growing Minds video premiered on the big screen at our Farm to School Institute at the North Carolina Center for Health and Wellness at UNC Asheville….

Meet Your Farmer: Yellow Mountain Garden

…Soil Song” performed by educator Crystel Hidalgo. Journal Prompt In the video, Farmer Malcolm mentions that they grow food to share with their community. Why do you think it’s important to do things together as a community? What community(ies) are you and your family a part of? What things do you do to support other members of your community(ies)? What are some of the benefits of farming together as a community?…

Meet Your Farmer: Mighty Gnome Market Garden

…ng the Market Garden is a toss-up between eating really great food and the community that has surrounded us here.” Watermelon is one of the fruits that Mighty Gnome grows. People have been eating watermelons or relatives of watermelons for thousands of years. We know this because archaeologists found watermelon seeds, along with the remnants of other fruits, at a 5,000-year-old settlement in Africa. Seeds, as well as paintings of watermelons, also…

Local Kale Salad Taste Test

https://youtu.be/60A5S0_zINk Western Carolina University nutrition and education students conduct a taste test of local kale salad at Cullowhee Valley School. These pre-service dietitians and teachers are learning how to implement Farm to School activities into their future professions….

The Garden Song

https://youtu.be/gIA04Bb3SKM Debbi Madill’s students love growing, cooking, and eating the yummy veggies from their school garden! This video debuted at our 2013 Farm to School Conference….

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