The Olympia High School Freedom Farmers (30 of them!!) came to the St. Mark Community Garden to help us with many tasks today. Freedom Farmers is a summer program that high school kids apply for where they work on a 6 acre farm that supplies food to the school district. Many of the kids on the program have not found traditional school effective so this program works on re-engaging kids.
A very enthusiastic crew cleaned up and tied up raspberry canes, thinned and harvested 10 rows of carrots, harvested and replanted beets, picked beans, harvested cabbage, cleaned produce, and loaded carrot tops into pick-up trucks to go to hungry horses! 311 pounds of produce went to the Thurston County Food Bank, and enough carrot tops for 14 hungry horses!
Pam C. fixed a nutritious and tasty lunch for the tribe which they all appreciated very much! It is always great to have these kids come work for a day. So much was accomplished – THANK YOU BLUE and all the Freedom Farmers! God Bless you guys!
