{"id":4099,"date":"2014-10-28T00:00:56","date_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/?p=4099"},"modified":"2014-10-28T00:00:56","modified_gmt":"2014-10-28T00:00:56","slug":"farm-focus-food-day-with-farmer-al-at-nixon-elementary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/farm-focus-food-day-with-farmer-al-at-nixon-elementary\/","title":{"rendered":"Farm Focus: Food Day with Farmer Al at Nixon Elementary"},"content":{"rendered":"\"Al<\/a>\n\nIn celebration of Food\u00a0Day and National Farm\u00a0to School Month, Farmer\u00a0Al visited the L.M.\u00a0Nixon School in Palo\u00a0Alto last Friday for a\u00a0meet and greet. The\u00a0school invited Frog\u00a0Hollow so the children\u00a0could have an opportunity to build a personal\u00a0connection to where\u00a0food comes from and\u00a0those who grow it. The\u00a0kids were excited to meet\u00a0a modern day organic\u00a0farmer and have a chance\u00a0to make connections between the work they do in their school garden and the\u00a0work that happens on the farm scale.\n\nIn the morning, Farmer Al met with 44 of the younger students in the school theatre where he told his story of becoming an organic farmer, what a day looks like at\u00a0Frog Hollow, and named all of the different fruits and vegetables we are growing at\u00a0the farm. The students had lots of good questions, including if he grows spaghetti.This was a great opportunity for him to explain a little bit about the process of\u00a0growing wheat and how it is turned into spaghetti. The question was timely, since\u00a0the kids will be planting wheat in their garden this week.\n\nDuring recess Farmer Al joined Jessica Ferrell, CSA member and Health &\u00a0Wellness PTA chair, and the noon garden club for some time in their garden.\u00a0The children shared zucchini muffins from the zucchini they harvested the week\u00a0before and chatted informally with Al. Following the snack of muffins and fresh\u00a0Frog Hollow Farm fruit, Farmer Al was able to tour the garden with the kids and\u00a0provide some advice and encouragement on all the great work they've been doing.\n\nIn the afternoon, Farmer Al visited Mr. Stevens' fourth grade class where he sat\u00a0on the floor with them while they fired away with the questions. They discussed\u00a0the drought and how our compost operation is helping to preserve water in the soil\u00a0and make our trees more resilient to stress. One boy wondered how Frog Hollow\u00a0grows organically, so Al talked about our work to encourage beneficial insects and\u00a0pollinators through habitat plantings and our owl and bat houses. Another girl\u00a0wondered if Farmer Al's daughters are able to roam the farm and eat as much fruit\u00a0as they want.\n\nWe send our thanks to the L.M. Nixon School community for hosting our CSA\u00a0and for inviting us to campus to share Food Day with them. It brings us all of on\u00a0the farm great joy to be able to provide opportunities for children to learn more\u00a0about sustainable agriculture and good food!\n\n\"IMG_5537\"<\/a>\n\n \n\n\"IMG_5543\"<\/a>\n\n \n\n\u00a0<\/a>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In celebration of Food\u00a0Day and National Farm\u00a0to School Month, Farmer\u00a0Al visited the L.M.\u00a0Nixon School in Palo\u00a0Alto last Friday for a\u00a0meet and greet. The\u00a0school invited Frog\u00a0Hollow so the children\u00a0could have an opportunity to build a personal\u00a0connection to where\u00a0food comes from and\u00a0those who grow it. The\u00a0kids were excited to meet\u00a0a modern day organic\u00a0farmer and have a chance\u00a0to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":4103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[123],"tags":[234,663,664,658],"class_list":["post-4099","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","tag-farmer-al","tag-national-farm-day","tag-national-farm-to-school-month","tag-nixon-elementary"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5HwAU-147","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4099"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4099\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4099"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4099"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/happychildcsa.com\/froghollowCSA\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4099"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}