As part of the Farm to School program run at James Thomson Elementary by my friend Francine, Doug and I hosted a "farm visit" from twenty Year 6 and 7 students. As the school is only around the corner, they walked over with their teacher and spent around an hour getting demonstrations of the beehives from Doug and picking strawberries with me. As a treat, I put out tubs of our honey and some from Cuba that Ron brought back, so that everyone a chance to taste the amazing difference and realise that what bees eat profoundly affects the honey. When Jono, the teacher, asked who had never tried honey before, 7 kids out of 20 put up their hands! I was astounded. I knew that these kids, most of whom live on the reserve at Sliammon, ate a lot of processed food and not much variety at that, but this really drove it home. To them it was mainly just a chance to not be in the classroom, but I am so happy that we got to share our produce with them. Next term I'm going to work with this same class to create some drawings for the food map of Wildwood we are making; maybe a bee or a strawberry will show up!
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