Spoutwood Farm Hosts Workshop Friday, July 2

Spoutwood Farm CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) is pleased to annouince a collaborative day on the farm with the DC Community College Success Foundation Friday, July 2, 8:30am – 4pm.

240 soon-to-be high school seniors will travel from McDaniel College in Westminster, MD. To visit and learn from Spoutwood and its vegetable operations.  There will be workshops giving an overview of organic farming and the CSA garden and of the CSA movement in general, achance to learn about individual vegetables and harvest some for cooking demonstrations by Spoutwood’s Teen Iron Chef program.  Finally Spoutwood’s own Greenman will lead the visitors on a romp around the woods, streamside and fields of Spoutwood, learning about key native plants and wildlife.

The DC Community College Success Foundation is a summer college preparatory program funded by the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.  During this inaugural four week summer program students learn about key cultural issues such as food and obesity, increasing world interdependence and interconnectedness, the environmental crisis and “nature deficit disorder. They will also be taught  special math and jounaling skills

Spoutwood Farm is an educational non-profit farm in Glen Rock, PA.  The farm sells naturally raised vegetables by subscription and is home to The May Day Fairie Festival and the Mother Earth Harvest Fair.