Hamilton Pool Farms

Reaping the fruits of their labor 🌿

Months ago, these students planted the tomatoes and basil growing in our garden. They helped w**d them, mulch them, water them, and care for them.

This week, they finally got to enjoy the harvest.

We turned those beautiful tomatoes and basil into a simple Italian feast: fresh Caprese made with garden tomatoes, basil, mozzarella, and balsamic vinegar.

We also harvested lemon balm from the garden, muddled fresh basil, and made a refreshing garden spritzer that quickly became everyone’s favorite.

And because we love a good experiment, we did a taste test.

I bought organic tomatoes from the grocery store and did a blind comparison to the tomatoes growing in our garden. The students tasted both and unanimously agreed…the garden tomatoes won by a landslide.

In fact, several children who were convinced they didn’t like tomatoes found themselves happily eating them straight from the garden.

There is something so beautiful about watching children experience the full journey of food.

Not just eating it.

Planting it.
Caring for it.
Harvesting it.
Preparing it.
Sharing it.

When children are part of the process, food becomes so much more than something that appears on a plate.

It becomes a story they helped create 🤍

There is something profoundly different about learning when children get to live the entire experience 🌿

Months ago these students planted tiny kale seedlings in the garden. They cared for them, watched them grow through the season, harvested them with their own hands, washed them, and finally turned them into fresh strawberry banana kale smoothies.

This is what we love so much about Farm School.

Children don’t simply learn about food…they build a relationship with it.

They learn where nourishment comes from. They experience patience. They witness transformation and they discover that healthy food becomes a whole lot more exciting when they’ve helped grow it themselves.

From seed… to harvest… to nourishment 🤍

This is regenerative education.

Garden to Medicine Workshop is the first in what will become an ongoing series of herbalism classes,
rooted in working directly with the land.

This isn’t about pre-dried herbs or learning from a distance.

It’s about stepping into the garden, seeing what’s alive and growing, harvesting with your own hands, and turning those plants into beautiful, useful, and powerful remedies.

We’ll gather herbs straight from the land
L and work with them in their freshest, most vibrant state, creating teas and simple preparations you can bring into your everyday life.

This is how I love to teach…through experience, through connection, through actually being with the plants themselves.

And with the spring garden so full and alive right now,
it feels like the perfect time to begin 🌿

I’d love for you to join me.

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