We wanted to reach out and offer a heartfelt thank you to our Middlebury Community for helping to Green Up and celebrate our garden and farm-to-school work. On May 3rd, over 100 people came to Mary Hogan to celebrate and work together to kick off our Farm-to-School work for this season. We mulched, picked up trash, removed invasive species, planted, weeded, and more!

A very special thank you to some local organizations and businesses who contributed to this event as partners.

Thank you to Will Gusakov of Goosewing Timberworks, the Forest to Frame Winter Term Class, and the Middlebury College Art and Architecture Dept. for hand hewing and constructing the most beautiful timber frame garden shed in the state of Vermont. It is a piece of art that will serve a functional role as we grow and nourish students with food from our garden.

Thank you to the Addison County Solid Waste District for supporting our Green Up efforts and helping us learn more about how to minimize waste.

Thank you to the Middlebury Natural Foods Coop for getting us active on the smoothie bike and encouraging our gardening and Green Up work all morning long.

Thank you to the Middlebury College Knoll Organic Farm and college club Nutrition, Outreach, and Mentoring for providing a chance to learn about the Knoll and for bringing materials for the make and take seed starts and handmade granola balls.

Thank you to Steve Marinelli and ACORN for nourishing our bodies while we did this hard physical labor.

We look forward to next year, where we can again celebrate our community, the rich connections to food and our environment, and good food!

Jen Kravitz and the Mary Hogan Farm to School Committee.

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