Tables set amongst the vegetable rows at Muir Ranch School Farm
“A day of thanks for the blessing of the harvest” – that’s what Thanksgiving is about. And if we did it earlier in the year (even earlier than we [ahem!] sensible Canadians do), I imagine Thanksgiving dinner might feel something like the farm-to-table dinner I had the pleasure of experiencing at Muir Ranch in Pasadena, California last September. I’m grateful for the opportunity.
Muir Ranch has a great story. It’s a high school, transformed in 2011 into an urban farm school. Students can come to perform community service or complete paid or for-credit internships – by growing fresh vegetables and flowers. And, sometimes, by serving at a dinner like ours.
Invited chefs made yummy stuff with the produce from the farm – like these grilled cauliflowers
that caused Mud Baron, Project Director at Muir Ranch, to invent #FlowersOnYourHead – a pretty way to promote growing flowers. Check out his Instagram for the most fun you’ll have with flowers on your head.
Happy Thanksgiving, whomever or wherever you are, however and whenever you celebrate!
Helen Battersby is a gardener, a writer, a garden speaker, and a power-walker, not always in that order!
3 comments
An event about growing veg and eating veg…now that's my kind of evening! There looks like there was so much to see in those beds – I definitely would have been one of the pre-dinner strollers.
Margaret, it was the kind of experience I'd love to have again and again. I doubt I'd tire of it, honestly.
This was such a great event and you captured it beautifully! Loved this memory!!
3 comments
An event about growing veg and eating veg…now that's my kind of evening! There looks like there was so much to see in those beds – I definitely would have been one of the pre-dinner strollers.
Margaret, it was the kind of experience I'd love to have again and again. I doubt I'd tire of it, honestly.
This was such a great event and you captured it beautifully! Loved this memory!!