{"id":2066,"date":"2015-04-01T15:07:35","date_gmt":"2015-04-01T23:07:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/communications.blogs.kpbsd.k12.ak.us\/wpmu\/?p=2066"},"modified":"2015-04-01T15:07:35","modified_gmt":"2015-04-01T23:07:35","slug":"student-grown-seeds-and-greens-in-tebughnas-community-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kpbsd.org\/schools\/comm-test\/2015\/04\/01\/student-grown-seeds-and-greens-in-tebughnas-community-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Student grown seeds and greens in Tebughna's community garden"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Tebughna<\/a>
Tebughna Garden<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nHow does your garden grow?\u00a0 <\/strong>\u00a0We do not have silver bells or cockle shells. However, our \u2018pretty maids all in a row\u2019 are the ladies who work for the Tyonek Tribal Conservation District (TTCD).\u00a0 These \u201cdirt ladies\u201d coordinate and collaborate with the school and the community to create a successful and productive community garden.
\nThe \u201cDirt Ladies\u201d<\/strong>
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\"Christy<\/a>
Christy Cincotta \u2013 Executive Director
Christy has been with the Tyonek Tribal Conservation District since October of 2011<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\"Tonya<\/a>
Tonya Kaloa \u2013 Program Assistant Tonya Kaloa started working for TTCD in February, 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>
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\"Nicole<\/a>
Nicole Swenson \u2013 Conservation Project Manager
Nicole began working with TTCD in April of 2014<\/figcaption><\/figure>
\nShortly after spring break they begin having the students plant the seeds.\u00a0 It is the responsibility of the students to water and care for the sprouts until mid-May when they have the students plant the sets into the prepared ground at our community garden plot.
\nOn August 23, 2014, a community harvest meal was celebrated.\u00a0 People prepared their favorite dishes made from the produce gathered from the community garden.\u00a0 We took this opportunity and held the Open House at that time as well.\u00a0 Due to the fire in Tyonek last spring, we were unable to have our promotional celebration for our students, so we presented trophies and awards to our students at this celebration.\u00a0 Great food and trophies, who could ask for anything better?
\nThe TTCD ladies, Nicole Swenson and Tanya Kaloa have provided and continue to provide fun activities for our students.\u00a0 So far they helped our students make pumpkin muffins from pumpkins harvested from our community garden. They also baked some of the pumpkin seeds.\u00a0 Yum-yum!!!\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 They were at the school in January and helped the students build a watershed model and demonstrated how a watershed works and what happens when conditions in a watershed change.\u00a0 On February 25, they plan to take the students ice fishing for pike and later we will be dissecting some of the pike. Then in March we will begin the preparation for the new garden plants again.
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\nWe were fortunate to have Deborah Kane, the National Director of USDA\u2019s Farm to School Program, visit our school along with the Alaskan Director, Johanna Herron. They were here to see how effectively the school is working with TTCD to help provide fresh produce for our village and to work on a plan to have some of the garden products used within our school lunch program.\u00a0 They spoke with our students, staff and Dean Hamburg.\u00a0 A couple of our students taught them how to do the seal hop.
\nWe may not have silver bells and cockle shells, but we sure do have fresh vegetables from our local garden which are not always available to us here in a fly-in village.\u00a0 The garden also provides a great way for us to learn new things about science and nutrition.
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