Veggie Project

Lady Moon Farms talks to fifth grade students about vegetables After the great experience we had visiting middle school students we wanted to talk to a younger group. We found a fifth grade class that allowed us to stop by and ask a few questions. We wanted to learn more about how the students felt …

How do kids like their vegetables?  Lady Moon Farms wanted to know. You might be surprised by what we found. Lady Moon Farms was interested in finding out more about kids and vegetables.  We sent Karen Kain to get some answers. This is a four part series working with a seventh grade horticulture class. I …

Twenty Eight Students Complete A Survey About What They Eat And Why Lady Moon Farms wanted to know what vegetables middle school students were eating. We surveyed twenty eight students asking about the vegetables they were eating, what they preferred, and whether they wanted to learn more about nutrition. We asked the following 10 questions.

Lady Moon Farms returns to middle school and gets the students juicing. The class was familiar with juicing fruits and had tried canned vegetable juice before. Most had never heard of juicing kale or chard and had no idea what the dandelion greens were.

On my first visit to the middle school horticulture class I learned that every student was responsible for maintaining a virtual plant. Each day they logged onto a computer which provided them the condition of the plant,  statistics and all the tools to maintain it. I brought in carrots, kale & radish seeds so that …

  Lady Moon Returns to Middle School To Make Kale Smoothies. On our final trip to visit the middle school campus we brought ingredients to make kale smoothies. The students had been great sports trying everything that we shared with them and were pleasantly surprised that they enjoyed the smoothies. Many of the students were not interested …