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We’d like to hear your story!

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Hello friends,

Has Lower Columbia School Gardens had a positive impact on you or your family in 2020? As you probably know, we were unable to do our regular Spring garden programs with students so we shifted to growing food, helping our community grow food, and giving away fresh produce. We’d especially love to hear from people who received container gardens, plants, seeds for their home gardens, and/or free produce this year. Email us at info@lcschoolgardens.org or call/text 360-200-8918 if you’d be willing to speak to a School Gardens staff member about your experience, or fill out this survey to share your story with us. Thank you!

Spanish: https://forms.gle/mhkaAJHY7WygmkdcA

English: https://forms.gle/FRTzYQeiQJDqeXKr5

Glimpses of school gardens from Our Summer of Covid

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  • Carrolls Elementary – Kelso
  • Columbia Heights Elementary – Longview
  • Columbia Heights Elementary – Longview
  • Coweeman Middle School – Kelso
  • CVG Elementary – Longview
New farm field at Three Rivers Christian – Longview
  • Three Rivers
  • Three Rivers
  • New farm field at Three Rivers Christian – Longview
  • Monticello Middle School – Longview
  • Monticello Middle School – Longview
  • The Northlake Orchard – Longview
  • Shiro plum
  • Frost peach
  • Cardoon under fig
  • Methley plum

The food we grow

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With limited opportunities to work with students this summer, we turned our focus to growing as much good food as possible for our community.

Our average harvest from school gardens is 250 pounds of food per week, most of which is distributed free at farm stands as well as through Family Community Resource Center, South Kelso Neighborhood Association, Radical Love, and others.

Harvest Day
  • Summer squash
  • “Pink Berkeley Tie-Dye” tomato
  • Peaches, plums, figs
  • Beets
  • Garlic!
  • More garlic!
  • Suffolk Red grape

New this year: Free Farm Stands

  • Free Farm Stand – Highlands
  • Free Farm Stand – Highlands
  • Free Farm Stand – Highlands
  • Free Farm Stand – South Kelso

Thank you for supporting this work! We are grateful for this beautiful community.

Talking with kids about racism

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It can be hard to talk with kids about racism. But we know that by preschool age, many kids have already learned racial bias. It’s so important to start talking with kids about race and racism early and often, even if we do so imperfectly.

If you want some help figuring out where to start or how to continue to engage with your kids about race, check out these two videos. The first is from Dr. Kira Banks and a panel of parents with varying perspectives and helpful tools for engaging in conversations about race with kids. And the second is a Sesame Street town hall Q&A both kids and adults can enjoy and learn from.

https://www.cnn.com/videos/us/2020/06/06/elmo-louie-protests-racism-sesame-street-cnn-town-hall-vpx.cnn