Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Throughout the fall, Locust Valley Intermediate students planted and maintained lettuce and cilantro in the school garden under the guidance of librarian Anne Joyce. On Nov. 20, students harvested the bounty and donated the food to the Village Church in Bayville.
Joyce and the school administration received the “Grow with Us Grant” from New York Agriculture in the Classroom through Cornell University’s College of Agriculture and Life Science to provide healthy food system education for the students.
This project started in September, which is Hunger Action Month, when Joyce led a discussion of how students can help provide for their neighbors in need. Students read “Last Stop on Market Street,” a story about a boy who helps his grandmother at a food bank to prepare for the harvest.
