Author: simren_mehta

On the final day, we went over to the SAS farm to help out the farm managers. We harvested garnishes for the 5 star restaurants, The Umstead Hotel and Heron’s. Some of the harvested food included carrots, basil, squash blossoms,...

In the final day of our first week, our original plan was to visit and pick strawberries at a strawberry farm, make strawberry jam, and listen to a guest speaker. Yet due to the weather, our plans were slightly changed. Early in...

We started off the day planting different flowers and herbs to refurbish CA’s butterfly garden. Then, we took a trip to the Avery Family Farm in Raleigh where we met Amanda Avery, the owner of the farm. She gave us a tour...

Today we visited Transplanting Traditions. Transplanting Traditions is a community farm where refugees, specifically from Burma, can plant foods native to their country and do what they love. Our tour guide, Betsy, taught us...

Today was an exciting and fun-filled day to kick off our DT! We went on a tour of our very own gardens at CA and brought some plants that were growing in the greenhouse to our butterfly garden. In the afternoon we went to the...