Looking back: New Iron Chef Challenge and Market Day!

This week in Sustainable Agriculture we had more interesting things happen. On Wednesday we had another Iron Chef competition, which was more competitive than it has ever been. Since everyone had experience with doing this competition before, each team came more prepared with what they were going to make, and brought in multiple ingredients from the farm to create their tasty masterpieces. This made the competition hard to judge because of how much effort each team put into their food, it was for the judge to pick one winner. However there can only be one winner and the group that came on top with the most tasty product was the group that made pan fried sliced  persimmons with mozzarella and topped it off with a sweet balsamic creme. 

Because this was the first week of a new month we had a new market day on Friday. Therefor Friday in class we spent our whole time on the farm preparing for the new farm market day by collecting items in the garden that were ready to be sold and eaten such as basil and mint. When preparing for the new market day we focused on making more bouquets to sell than we had in the past. This all led to another successful market day. Finally Monday and Tuesday we spent both class periods working on presenting our one beds with our teams by working hard on making and creating a presentation that best shows the progress and outcomes of everyone's one bed. Teams were dividing up responsibilities so they would be ready for when we first start presenting Friday in class. Also we ended class Tuesday with a short friendly competition to see who could give a presentation on a random topic they were given the longest without saying "like" or "um" and for some it didn't take more than a second for them to say one of them while other lasted closer to a minute. 

-Gabriel Mandossian