Photo Gallery from the Courthouse Garden 2009 season
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the garden, July 3, 2009 |
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 Lunch ‘n’ Learn students speaking with Seth Pitts in the Battenkill Kitchen, preparing soup from fresh ingredients harvested from the Courthouse Community Garden |
 Courthouse Community Garden work crew in the Three Sisters Garden |
Chef Sheetz in one of the many gardens on the grounds of the Executive Mansion |
During Al Fresco, picking the first tomato of the season from the Courthouse Community Garden |
Chef Noah Sheetz creating samples of great food made with great local produce! |
Our crew, with Katie and Jeri from Washington County EOC, visiting the Governor’s Mansion in Albany, at the invitation of Executive Chef Noah Sheetz, for a day filled with learning about sustainability! |
Corn in the Three Sisters Garden |
Listening to a presentation by Marlon Galimore speaking to the students as George Washington Carver, learning more about peanuts and the peanut plants started from seed provided by the National Peanut Board. |
Mettawee River Theatre Company frolicking in the Courthouse Community Garden during Al Fresco |
Cleaning and sorting potatoes harvested from the Courthouse Community Garden |
Salem elementary students bring their plants to the Courthouse Community Garden for Planting Day. |
Assemblyman Tony Jordan visits with the Courthouse Community Center Lunch ‘n’ Learn students on their first day of the program. The Assemblyman spoke with the children about healthful food choices while taking a tour of the Courthouse Community Garden on July 6, 2009. |
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Creating a trellis for bean plants, Randy Squires and Charlie Burd tie saplings together with grapevine in the Courthouse Community Garden
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Dan Ruggles, Jeanna Kratzert, Randy Squires, and Charlie Burd create a teepee using saplings, secured with grapevine and baling twine around the circumference of the Three Sisters' garden bed at the Courthouse Community Garden.
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Courthouse Community Garden staffers Jeanna Kratzert (left) and Eddie Mitchell (right) bring produce to the Salem Food Pantry on June 20th -- where Mary Frasier will distribute. |
New CCG staffers Dan Ruggles and Austin Evans with Jeanna Kratzert, student crew leader. |
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Students work through the summer vacation in the Courthouse Community Garden. |
Nearly 300 students planted seedlings in the Courthouse Community Garden on Friday, June 5th. The students also enjoyed a visit from the Governor's Executive Chef, Noah Sheetz. |
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 Garden is tilled -- April 24th |
 SCS 6th grade teacher and Jr. FFA advisor, Brian Talmadge speaks to his class about hot peppers, and the seeds that his classroom will start for CCG |
 Setting up the sign graphics |
 Volunteers paintinig the sign |
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