Perhaps our most exciting day of the month, Market Day! The one day where all the classes work together to gather everything we've grown to sell at our Farmer's Market. We value each of our lbundles at $2. We determine the amount of an item in a bundle based off of both weight and size of plant. Some smaller individual plants sell for $1 such as Lemon cucumbers (very popular sellers) and horse radish plants.
We'd gather these bundles of vegetables, split up into groups and parade around school offering them to teachers (who weren't teaching). After making our way through all four main hallways, we delivered to students flooding out of the lot and parents sitting in their car waiting to pick up students.
Our most popular items today were our Lemon Cucumbers, Kale, Flower bouquets and our beets. We tend to sell out in these items which means we have to grow more of these goods in our garden. We already have two full class beds of Kale and on top of that students like to grow Kale in their own beds. We have several garden beds designed for flowers and are well taken care of by a group of students so increasing demand in this product shouldn't be an issue. Lemon cucumbers are a big seller but not one of our biggest growers. Perhaps we should designate more class beds for the cucumbers or encourage students to grow them in their own beds.
Overall, I would say this Market was a success. We look forward to getting back in the farm to make next months market even better! -H Jones
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