12/09/2025
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My name is Katie Young and I am the Farm to School/Nutrition Coordinator for Columbus City Schools.
12/09/2025
11/21/2025
The South Garden Club learned how to prune and trellis tomatoes in their Bato Bucket system. Students checked the pH and EC of the water and practiced adding nutrients. Thanks to Sean McKay from MOFC for sharing your knowledge with these awesome young adults.
11/21/2025
The Dominion MS Grow Getters garden club celebrated their first hydroponic lettuce harvest.
11/21/2025
Third graders at Berwick Alternative have been growing with MGV Ms. Marti and Farmer Sean to grow fresh produce right in the school cafeteria in their vertical NFT system. They grew enough lettuce to feed all 75 students a fresh salad AND send two large bins of lettuce to the local food bank.
11/21/2025
The Garden club at Hiltonia MS used the basil that they grew to make fresh pesto panini  sandwiches. Yum!!
11/21/2025
Check out the huge radishes grown by kindergartners at Cedarwood Elementary.  Thank you Ms. Rollins for providing such wonderful opportunities for your students to learn where their food comes from.
09/22/2025
Check out the CCS Farm to School newsletter for the week of September 22, 2025
Growing in the Garden September 22, 2025 Let's Get Growing! Hello everyone! I hope you all had a relaxing and refreshing weekend! By now, I hope you've...
09/17/2025
Check out the CCS Farm to School newsletter for important school garden information.
Growing in the Garden September 16, 2025 Welcome Back! I hope that everyone had a great summer and that you are excited to start a new year with our...
09/12/2025
Thank you to all of the CCS teachers who attended our Farm to School new garden leader trainings this week! A special shout out to Chris Weatherholtz/CCS, Merele Wilder/CCS, Tisha Maddox/CCS, Victoria Johnson/CCS, Tim McDermott/OSU Extension, Carol Smathers/OSU Extension, Sean McKay/MOFC, Jessie and Aliyah/FPC for helping to make the night a success. We appreciate your support for CCS Farm to School. Teachers left the training with the supplies and knowledge to return to their classrooms and plant, grow, harvest and taste fresh veggies with their students throughout the school year.
02/15/2025
I love to see our AMAZING CCS students and teachers growing, harvesting and eating fresh food.
02/15/2025
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