The Folk School’s vegetable garden provides organic, seasonal produce for our Dining Hall. This beautiful lettuce was harvested for our recent fundraising dinner, Springtime Folk School Feast. Humble heads of lettuce were transformed into gourmet salads with mint, orange, dates, and a sherry citrus vinaigrette.
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Poem Inspired by the Spring Garden by Carla Owen Newest Spring spinach Tiny scallions and violet flowers Tonight’s sweet salad
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If you’ve visited our campus, you know that almost anywhere you choose to walk, you are surrounded by beauty and the peaceful serenity of the mountains. This idyllic landscape provides an escape from the hurried city and invites us to turn inward and be renewed. Now, thanks to the hard work of a recent gardening [...]
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Here’s a video of the Earth Day mule plowing demonstration in the Folk School’s garden. Watch Buildings and Grounds Manager John Clarke plowing and singing the “Muleskinner Blues” and work study student Harrison Topp seems to catch on pretty quick, too. The 2 mules, Jim and Joe, owned by Danny Logan. Hal Hogsed, Muleskinner. Jim [...]
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Last Friday, Folk School students, staff, and community members excitedly gathered in the garden to witness something that probably hasn’t happened at the Folk School in the last 50 years. Brasstown neighbor, Danny Logan brought his mules to help do some ploughing. The mules, not accustomed to such hard work (or spectators with cameras) put [...]
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