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Harvest Day Celebrates Fruits of Students' Labors
Harvest Day on Wednesday, September 9 was a grand celebration for all involved with McDonogh Roots. The half-acre community plot, planted last spring, yielded hundreds of pumpkins and tomatoes for donation, the dining hall, and classroom lessons.
Science teacher Kirk Robertson delivered some of the tomato harvest to the Carroll County Food Bank, which put the vegetables to use by lunchtime the next day.
Lower schoolers arrived by bus and hay wagon to pick pumpkins. It took four or five kindergartners and an adult to carry some of the large melons, which thrived in the fertile Roots soil.
Back in the classroom, students estimated the circumference, weight, number of ribs, and height of their pumpkins. Then they measured to see how close their estimates came.
The best moment came when some seventh graders brought trays of ripe tomatoes to the edge of the plot, and the second graders exclaimed, "We made those!"
The younger children had grown them from seed into seedlings last spring. They saw the fruits of their labors for the first time on Harvest Day.
An upper school ecology class had a mini-lesson out in the plot and then helped some of the younger children pick and carry their pumpkins.
Fifth graders helped weed. Seventh graders and third graders picked the rotten tomatoes and deposited them in the compost bin. Third graders also helped to collect weeds that others had removed with a shovel. Fourth graders, the last to the plot, continued cleaning it up.
Parent volunteers weeded, picked tomatoes, and assisted the younger children with their pumpkins.
A potato harvest is planned for Saturday, September 19 from 9 to 11 a.m. Volunteers will be picking and bagging several thousand pound of Kennebec potatoes, which will be donated, delivered to the dining hall, and shared with harvest helpers. The potatoes will be pulled to the surface by a harvester on Friday, making bagging easier.
Sign up online at www.mcdonogh.org/roots.
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Harvest Day on Wednesday, September 9 was a grand celebration for all involved with McDonogh Roots. The half-acre community plot, planted last spring, yielded hundreds of pumpkins and tomatoes for donation, the dining hall, and classroom lessons.
Science teacher Kirk Robertson delivered some of the tomato harvest to the Carroll County Food Bank, which put the vegetables to use by lunchtime the next day.
Lower schoolers arrived by bus and hay wagon to pick pumpkins. It took four or five kindergartners and an adult to carry some of the large melons, which thrived in the fertile Roots soil.
Back in the classroom, students estimated the circumference, weight, number of ribs, and height of their pumpkins. Then they measured to see how close their estimates came.
The best moment came when some seventh graders brought trays of ripe tomatoes to the edge of the plot, and the second graders exclaimed, "We made those!"
The younger children had grown them from seed into seedlings last spring. They saw the fruits of their labors for the first time on Harvest Day.
An upper school ecology class had a mini-lesson out in the plot and then helped some of the younger children pick and carry their pumpkins.
Fifth graders helped weed. Seventh graders and third graders picked the rotten tomatoes and deposited them in the compost bin. Third graders also helped to collect weeds that others had removed with a shovel. Fourth graders, the last to the plot, continued cleaning it up.
Parent volunteers weeded, picked tomatoes, and assisted the younger children with their pumpkins.
A potato harvest is planned for Saturday, September 19 from 9 to 11 a.m. Volunteers will be picking and bagging several thousand pound of Kennebec potatoes, which will be donated, delivered to the dining hall, and shared with harvest helpers. The potatoes will be pulled to the surface by a harvester on Friday, making bagging easier.
Sign up online at www.mcdonogh.org/roots.