Harvest Day Celebration at PS 29
Friday, October 16, 2009
8:40 AM-3:00 PM
Friday, October 16, 2009
8:40 AM-3:00 PM
On Friday, October 16, Public School 29, in Cobble Hill, Brooklyn, will celebrate locally grown food in honor of World Food Day.
Come enjoy a wonderful array of special activities planned for our community including outdoor activity stations (weather permitting):
- A fabulous fall lunch menu that includes fresh produce from Greenmarket and hand-picked fresh lettuce and basil by the students, from the PS 29 Children’s Garden;
- A presentation by farmer and land steward Scott Chaskey of the Peconic Land Trust’s Quail Hill organic community farm;
- Followed by Tom Chapin, Grammy Award-winning musician, entertainer, singer, songwriter and storyteller. In his set is his brand- new, unreleased, song entitled, Locally Grown, Locally Eaten!
- Vegetable prints – Art
- Planting in recycled plastic cups/bottles – Science
- Drawings and letters to Federal lawmakers who are reauthorizing the Child Nutrition Act; children will be given the opportunity to draw or write about the items they would like to see more of on their lunch tray — Political Action and Community Service
- Beekeeper Q&A/Honey tasting with Brooklyn rooftop beekeeper Megan Paska –Science
- Apple comparisons and taste tests of NY state varieties
- Local cheese taste tests generously provided by Stinky Bklyn, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn cheese proprietor
- (Live) Chicken observation Q&A with local Cobble Hill chicken raiser Martha Lazar – Science
- Hay bales obstacle course – Physical Education
- Composting and worms – Science
- Diversity Committee read-aloud - Literacy
- Farm Animals activity Science
PS 29 is located at 425 Henry Street Brooklyn, NY 11201
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