Farm To School

PROGRAM REGISTRATION

CANCELLED FOR THE 2020 SEASON

It is with a heavy heart, we are announcing that the Farm to School Fundraiser will be cancelled for 2020.

We are making this necessary decision due to the current health concerns related to the global COVID-19 pandemic and its impact on schools and daycares. Protecting the health, safety and well-being of students, staff and volunteers is priority, and serves as the reason for our decision to cancel the fundraiser for the first time.

We feel confident that the Farm to School Fundraiser will resume in 2021. In the meantime, we wish everyone good health.

Did You Know...

The carrot is a domesticated form of the wild carrot Daucus carota, native to Europe and southwestern Asia. It has been bred for its greatly enlarged and more palatable, less woody-textured edible taproot, but is still the same species. It is a biennial plant which grows a rosette of leaves in the spring...

The parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) is a root vegetable related to the carrot. Parsnips resemble carrots, but are paler than most of them and have a stronger flavor. Like carrots, parsnips are native to Eurasia and have been eaten there since ancient times. Zohary and Hopf note that the archeological ...