Franklin Central School
Farm-to-School Program
GARDENING IS BETTER THAN THERAPY!
We need your help over the summer to weed and water the garden! It takes a community!
Please consider signing up for a week to help maintain our garden for the kids. Time spent working in the garden counts toward community service hours for scouts and school.
Contact the farm to school team by calling the school or by sending an email to
fcsfarmtoschool@gmail.com to sign up.
SAVE THE DATE
Saturday, August 26, 2023
Farm to School and Franklin Recreation are teaming up to host the annual Community Harvest Dinner on the Town Green!
Music by the Old Man Garage Band
Homemade Pizza with toppings harvested right from our school garden!
Our Garden Now Has a Rhubarb Patch!
Thanks to the Splonskowskis and the Bachelder / Gates families!
We are super excited to harvest our first rhubarb from the patch this spring!
Mission Statement
Franklin Central School’s Farm to School Team values:
Healthy food choices through food cycle education
Agricultural awareness and literacy
Becoming socially and environmentally responsible community members
Collaboration with local farmers
Pride in producing and sharing freshly grown food
Developing self-reliant, life-long learners
Photo Gallery
Pollinators - 2021
The very first garden
It grew an AMAZING crop!
Current garden construction - 2016
That's some carrot Mrs. Wilson!
Sweet Beets!
Taste tests!
Ingredients for the community dinner!
Even cleaning out the beds is fun!
Third grade made salsa for everyone!
It was pretty tasty!
Harvesting ingredients for the salsa
Prepping the ingredients
Even the ones that make you cry
Kindergarten planted the garlic this past fall
Hardneck garlic saved from last season
They broke it into cloves
And planted the bed
On April 13th it was already coming up!