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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!

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.