by Francie Randolph | May 18, 2016 | Children's Community Garden, News
“The popular year-old Community Children’s Garden is next to the Truro Library; it is the result of a partnership between Sustainable Cape, Truro Recreation and the Truro Library and consists of one big 16×16 garden. This garden is all about kids as it hosts an...
by Francie Randolph | Sep 6, 2014 | Blog, Children's Community Garden, Farmer-in-the-School Program
Life is richer with friends, that’s for certain. In our case, the DPW has just helped us out with some pea fencing – a bit extra from the town lot. How great is that?! Everyone is working together to enable our children to grow more delicious food for...
by Francie Randolph | Apr 2, 2014 | Blog, Children's Community Garden, Farmer-in-the-School Program
IN AN (ORGANIC) NUTSHELL Envisioning Change Our premise is simple. We’ve seen that if kids grow food, they’ll try it and eat the goodness they’ve grown. Yes to spinach. Yes to pea shoots, to carrots, to edible flowers. Yes to kale chips! It’s this enthusiasm for...
by Francie Randolph | Mar 30, 2014 | Blog, Children's Community Garden
Making vegetables fun for kids… if we get them outside playing in the dirt and watching the miracle of a tiny seed, tended and cared for, growing into delicious food, well it just sort of happens. Lots of laughter, playing “Tag, We’re Fit!”...
by Francie Randolph | Nov 6, 2013 | Blog, Children's Community Garden, Uncategorized
Children love permission to get dirty. Gardening provides ample happily-sanctioned opportunities to do just that. In our cleanliness obsessed, germ-phobic world, the chance for kids to play in the dirt are far too few and far between. If it were up to us, every kid...
