This Saturday was an exciting market! We reached over 200 customers AND our stand sold more produce from our garden then we brought in from other farms. We had collards, chard, onions, scallions, beets, cucumbers, basil, and our herb pots for sale. Next week look for our first tomaotes, zuchinni and eggplant! 
I think the farmers market is very good. Every Saturday more people come to the farmers market. I feel proud selling the produce that we grow because we work hard in the garden. I think the farmers market is valuable to the community because people in the community can find fresh produce at the farmers’ market .My favorite job at the farmers market is talking to people at the information table. I see a lot of people coming to the market with empty hands and leaving with lots of food.
Clivens Laurore
One of my favorite things about working at the farmers market is hanging out with the GROW crew. Although we see each other all the time, it seems like the farmers market brings out a different side of everyone. It is very interesting to see the various styles of customer service and interaction coming from every member of the crew. Also, it is a great to hear the young people talk about the fresh food coming right out of our garden.
This is me Ya-Ya and The Food Project at the Pesticides Banquet listening actively and preparing my 5 card meal for the game to find out how much pesticide residue is on each meal. Liz is beside me, Chris is beside her, and LaShawn is across from me.
We cooked a very big meal for the old people in the Underwood apartments. (What did we cook?) The meal that we cooked had a whole lot of ingredients and these are the ingredients.
1. Tomato
2. Basil
3. Onions
4. Orzo
5. Garlic
6. Cucumber
7. Olive oil
8. dill
9. chard
The peoples responded by saying that the food was great and that they like it and they wanted some more food to eat.
Clifford!
This is me the new chef in town, Angel. I am making some delicious rhubarb pie for our lunch for tomorrow when our two special groups come. The two groups are, the FRESH Group from New London and The Food Project from Boston. We had a good day that day and that pie was banging.
Here is the recipe:
The ingredients
Blueberrys4 c.
rhubarb pieces (about 1 lb.)
2 c. sliced strawberries
1 c. sugar
1 1/3 c. flour
1/2 tsp. cinnamon
1 c. brown sugar
1 c. old fashioned rolled oats
1/4 tsp. nutmeg
1/2 c. butter, melted & cooled
In large bowl combine rhubarb, strawberries, sugar, 1/3 cup flour and cinnamon. Transfer to greased 9 x 13 inch baking dish.
In another bowl combine remaining 1 cup flour with brown sugar, oats and nutmeg. Add butter and blend well to create the struesel. Sprinkle struesel over rhubarb mixture and bake at 350 degrees for 35-40 minutes
Hi my name is Theresa (in the pink shirt) and this is my second year with GROW Hartford. I'm going to Quirk Middle when school starts in the fall. I just graduated from West Middle Elementary School. I'm thirteen years old. When I have free time I like to go outside and play double dutch with my friends. Also, I like to go the park and sit with my friends and talk about boyz. I like GROW Hartford because it gives me something to do in the summer.
Hi. My name is Clivens Lauvore. I am on the end of this picture. I am 14 years old. I go to Bellizi Middle School. My favorite subject is math. In my free time I like to play football. It makes me happy when we all work as a team. This summer I hope that I can save all the money I make.
On this day we all were helping some kids from Pope Park recreation center. We were teaching them about how to grow plants and how to be a good gardener. Most of the kids were at least 8 to 12. The kids love eating the onions from the garden for nothing. They all were great kids and will visit a few more times this summer.
I bought the chicken because I knew we were going to cook the following day. I went home and got the chicken out of the freezer. I washed the chicken in some water then I put seasoning on it. I even put some sazon on them. The day when I brought the chicken, everyone was asking "why is it that color?" I poured some vegetable oil into the pot. We had to wait until the oil was hot, then we put the chicken into the pot. Soon enough it was done and it was good. - Rickyon Smith
I was having a good day. Me and Clifford was picking onions. One thing I did not like was the weather. I was picking onions for the farmers market on Saturday. Everything went well on that day. We cooked some food, it was very good.The group worked well together and we finished all the work projects that we had to do. On that day I learned how to harvest onion. It was around 11:30 when I was picking onion.The topic of the lesson was to harvest some onion for the farmers market. Clivens
My name is Clifford. I am 14 years old. I go to Bellizzie Middle on South Street and my favorite subject is math. In my free time I like to play basketball with my boys. This is my first year in the grow Hartford program. The grow Hartford program is a very good program if you don’t have some thing to do in the summer time.
Hi my name is Rickyon, I am14 years old. I go to school at Lewis Fox Middle School. My best subject in school is social studies. I like to play basketball when I have nothing to do. This is my first year at grow Hartford and it is really fun. I hope you will be a part of it next year.
This is me, Precious, and Shannon trying a garlic from the garden after we had finished cooking. The garlic tasted very spicy when we put it in our mouths, but it was fun. Together we made pasta with vegetables from our garden. We used basil, collards, onions, and garlic.
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