{"id":111370,"date":"2015-07-01T16:29:23","date_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:29:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/families-pitch-in-to-help-at-school-to-farm-garden\/"},"modified":"2015-07-01T16:29:23","modified_gmt":"2015-07-01T22:29:23","slug":"families-pitch-in-to-help-at-school-to-farm-garden","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/families-pitch-in-to-help-at-school-to-farm-garden\/","title":{"rendered":"Families pitch in to help at School to Farm garden"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

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Freshly painted signs wait on a bench. Behind them are new vertical gardens made of wooden pallets. \"We've planted inside those pallets. We're trying to create some way of taking up space vertically instead of all horizontally. You know, it's a small , but we can grow things up, and make things a little more pretty,\" said Megan Talmadge, an organizer of the garden in Dolores.<\/span>Regan Umberger\/The Dolores Star<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Vegetables are not the only thing growing at the Dolores school garden this summer. Kids are expanding their knowledge of gardening, thanks to the Montezuma School to Farm Project family volunteer days.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe do a lot of different tasks,\u201d said Megan Talmadge, an organizer of the garden in Dolores. Kids get a healthy dose of hands-on learning. They get their hands dirty weeding in garden boxes. Cheerful and colorful hand-painted signs mark the names of each crop. They can plant, water, or help harvest produce. There are benches to rest on and lots of shade.<\/p>\n

The garden is full of greens such as spinach, lettuce, kale, and chard. There\u2019s also a variety of herbs in season. \u201cWe\u2019ve harvested a lot of peas, snap peas, strawberries, onions; we are just about ready to harvest garlic,\u201d said Talmadge. \u201cOur next round will be a lot of the summer crops.\u201d July will bring tomatoes and cucumbers.<\/p>\n

Volunteers are welcome to take home a sample of the produce they are helping grow. Some of the food is taken to the Dolores Library, where it is given to kids receiving a free lunch from the collaboration between the library and the Pi\u00c3\u00b1on Project. \u201cWe don\u2019t quite have enough supply for distribution but we have enough for them to eat for lunch,\u201d acknowledged Talmadge. The rest will go to the Pinon Project, who are taking part in the BackPack Program.<\/p>\n

The Dolores family volunteer days take place every Tuesdays from 8 a.m. to 11 a.m.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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