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PMS Cooks+Gardens: Tasting herbs, planting blues

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Fantastic news to report from JW Middle School: Nyrie Janho’s food science course is so popular that Priscilla Hayes’ accompanying garden lessons have necessitated an expansion of the edible gardens! Newly installed rain barrels will help with watering needs for the plantings until we can get an outdoor spigot installed there. Under the direction of Priscilla and Janet Gaudino, 8th-grade science teacher and advisor, students in JW Cooks + Gardens planted blueberries in the lovely (and little-used) courtyard yesterday, after they took a tasting tour of herbs and greens growing in the established gardens next to the playing fields. We are grateful to McCaffrey’s Food Markets and to Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund for their generous support of this vital program!
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PMS Cooks+Gardens: Greens and eggs

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Spring session of JW Cooks+Gardens is under way, with students making scrambled eggs with fresh herbs and greens from the JW Edible Gardens! Thanks to all who make it possible, especially our volunteers and our funders, McCaffrey’s Food Markets and Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund. Thanks to Chef Michelle Fuerst and to Priscilla Hayes, our Master Gardener and administrator of this program for middle school students. A special thanks to Jason Burr, principal, and to Janet Gaudino, science teacher, for the hard work that brings richness in experience to students in grades 6-8.

Funding PSGC programs

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Kirsten Cluver, left, of Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund celebrates the $8,000 grant for Princeton School Gardens Cooperative and its JW Cooks + Gardens program. Thank you, Kirsten and colleagues!

Cookbook author – and foods made from the book

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Chef Michelle Fuerst instructs on the finer points of home-made ice cream at a recent JW Cooks program.
Chef Michelle Fuerst instructs on the finer points of home-made ice cream at a recent JW Cooks program.

David Tanis, author of “One Good Dish,” and food writer at The New York Times, will be discussing his work at the Princeton Public Library (corner of Witherspoon and Paul Robeson) this evening from 7 p.m. to 9 p.m., and that’s good, and food for thought. Equally interesting will be snacks from his book’s recipes by Michelle Fuerst, chef for JW Cooks (which is becoming a school-day class in February for grades 6 and 7) and PPS Cooks, our seed-to-table program for grades 8-12!

Fall harvest at PMS Cooks kitchens & gardens!

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Jason Burr, JW principal, and Debbie Schaeffer, owner of Mrs. G's, toured the JW Teaching Kitchens and Edible Gardens - and she left with a beautiful lettuce bouquet for lunch! Thank you, Debbie, for your generous gift of 5 single-basin kitchen sinks and high-neck faucets for upgrading the Teaching Kitchens. They will make washing big pots and pans almost easy!
Jason Burr, JW principal, and Debbie Schaeffer, owner of Mrs. G’s, toured the JW Teaching Kitchens and Edible Gardens – and she left with a beautiful lettuce bouquet for lunch! Thank you, Debbie, for your generous gift of 5 single-basin kitchen sinks and high-neck faucets for upgrading the Teaching Kitchens. They will make washing big pots and pans almost easy!

$8,000 for K-5 edible gardens from C&D fund

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Kirsten Cluver, an associate chemist at Church & Dwight, Co., Inc., presented the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative an $8,000 check from the company's Employee Giving Fund. The funds will be distributed equally among the PTO boards of the four elementary schools to be used for edible garden education during the 2015-2016 school year. The Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund is a workplace giving fund which was established in 2005 to meet the desires of employees to actively support and participate in the good works of not-for-profit organizations. For more information on the fund, click on the photo.
Kirsten Cluver, an associate chemist at Church & Dwight, Co., Inc., presented the Princeton School Gardens Cooperative an $8,000 check from the company’s Employee Giving Fund. The funds will be distributed equally among the PTO boards of the four elementary schools to be used for edible garden education during the 2015-2016 school year. The Church & Dwight Employee Giving Fund is a workplace giving fund which was established in 2005 to meet the desires of employees to actively support and participate in the good works of not-for-profit organizations. For more information on the fund, click on the photo.

Take the Oasis School Garden Tour

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The courtyard gardens at Littlebrook Elementary School
The courtyard gardens at Littlebrook Elementary School
Reserve your spot now for the Saturday 9/26 OASIS School Garden Tour

We will visit the school gardens at Hightstown High School and Littlebrook
School,touring the gardens and hearing from the garden coordinators about
curriculum integration.

Meet at Chapin School on Princeton Pike by 12:55 in time for a 1pm
departure by bus (donated by Chapin School).

You must reserve a spot on the bus. The tour is free. We will return to
Chapin School at 4:10pm.

To reserve your space or for more info, contact, Priscilla Hayes,priscilla.ellen.hayes@gmail.com.

Welcoming a new partner on food literacy

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GloriaNilsonRE_logo_RGBToday, we welcome a new partner in our food literacy efforts: Gloria Nilson and Company Real Estate! Already, realtors have turned out to help with garden days, and now, the organization is funding the Garden State on Your Plate program for the YMCA-Princeton Young Achievers. With the $750 the firm is donating, we are able to bring in two farmers to visit the elementary-school children participating in the program. Thank you!