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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!

10 years at CP for edible gardens

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Students, faculty, staff, administrators, parents and town officials celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the CP Edible Gardens
Students, faculty, staff, administrators, parents and town officials celebrated the 10-year anniversary of the CP Edible Gardens
Priscilla Hayes, CP garden educator, presented plants to the garden's founders.
Priscilla Hayes, CP garden educator, presented plants to the garden’s founders.
Garden beds are already home to arugula, strawberries and lettuce.
Garden beds are already home to arugula, strawberries and lettuce.

Spring gardening for PMS Cooks+Gardens

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Priscilla Hayes led the JW Cooks gardens workday on Saturday, April 18, as concurrent efforts were made at Community Park Elementary School and at Johnson Park Elementary, where a group of Princeton University athlete volunteers assisted.

Among the chores accomplished at JW Cooks edible gardens: Weeding, watering and a start on bamboo trellises for peas.

Eighth-grader Jane Witke waters seedlings beneath the mini greenhouse at JW Cooks edible gardens.
Eighth-grader Jane Witke waters seedlings beneath the mini greenhouse at JW Cooks edible gardens.

Pea seedlings soon will be stretching up to grasp the twine, metal and bamboo trellis, now under way.
Pea seedlings soon will be stretching up to grasp the twine, metal and bamboo trellis, now under way.