Hoonah Family Health Fair

Hoonah City School held the 3rd Annual Family Health Fair this weekend. 

Our garden booth was a huge success!

Students created a giant vegetable man poster that showed the different parts of the body and how specific vegetables target those areas.

We also sent home about 30 Zucchinis that people were able to plant themselves!

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Round Two

We are back at it here in Hoonah!

Our seeds are growing tall and proud.  We decided to plant the crops that did the best last year:

Kale
Rainbow Chard

Broccoli

Cabbage

Zucchini 

Basil

Harvest Moon ( a day late)

Frost has come to Hoonah. The mountain peaks have transformed to a bright white, which marks the looming winter season. Just two days after the actual October harvest moon we headed down to the garden to harvest some final treats. To our surprise we found a plethora of potatoes burrowed deep into the ground, some turnips and of course a hearty bunch of kale.
Check out our new Autumn Album for pictures of our veggies and our first cooking project!

Time to Eat

Purple Kale & Purple Potatoes

Harvest Moon

The Hoonah School and Community Garden located behind Collette’s Cupboard is looking grand.

A big Gunalchéesh to everyone who helped look after the garden this summer! Many vegetables are ripe and ready to be picked.

The garden is free to anyone here in Hoonah so, PLEASE browse the rows and take home some fresh, local veggies grown by Hoonah Students!

Some of the vegetables include:

Rainbow Chard- Delicious when sautéed with some minced garlic.

Cabbage- Make your own coleslaw or sauerkraut.

Carrots- Small but sweet, take these home and eat them raw.

Potatoes- Yum! Baked, boiled, steamed, you name it.

Beets- Steam these with their skins on and enjoy their candy-like flavor.

If you have any questions about preparation, preservation, or starting a garden of your own please contact Macky Cassidy:

cassidym@hoonahschools.org 945-3613.

Cabbage Patch & Rainbow Chard

Health at Every Size

Kari Natwick a dietitian for Search Hospital in Juneau, came to Hoonah for the last week of school and gave a few presentations about nutrition. The first day she was here she used sugar cubes to demonstrate the amount of sugar found in different drinks students commonly consume. The following day she spoke with the students about body image and "health at every size".

Planting

What a beautiful sunny day to put our transplants into the ground. Being the last week of school we are spending the entire week in the garden!

First we used the rototiller to make our rows.


Next, we removed the large rocks and sticks from the row.



Dirt sifters were used to remove the small rocks.

Finally our rows were ready to add fertilizer.

Pot Ash, Bone Meal Crushed Clam Shells and Alfalfa Pellets.

Presto! Planting Time.

More Planting Photos