First Market on August 30th

This week we have our first market of the year on Thursday, August 30th in the LCS parking lot from 4 pm to 6 pm. Everyone is invited to come and shop and enjoy the produce.

Here are some things to remember:

• Bring your own shopping reusable bags.
• We can take cash, check, or credit card.
• If you need a large quantity of an item, send us an email (landschool@lakecountryschool.org) a few days ahead, and we can usually harvest it and pack it separate, so you know you will get it.
• After this Thursday, the remaining markets will be every Tuesday until the end of October.

Here is what we anticipate harvesting this week:

Beets

Bell Peppers

Broccoli

Cucumbers

Cut Flowers

Eggplant

Garlic

Herbs

Kale

Onions

Swiss Chard

Tomatoes

Watermelon

Zucchini

Farmstay 4: The End

Today is the last day of FS4. At the beginning I was looking forward to this day, and I still am, but now I am not sure that I want it as much as I thought that I did. All of the things that happened: Occupations, Micro Economy, the list goes on. Micro Economy was the best for me. Even though I only came home with $1.27, I still got the experience, and twenty-five cookies, so what's the downside! Over Farmstay, through a combination of my personal odyssey, taking pictures outside, and my science project, comparing the ground temperature to the cloud cover, I managed to walk all of the trails at the land school, including most deer trails, at least twice. Overall I enjoyed Farmstay and plan to do it again next year.

-Evan

Farm Stay 4: Coming to an end

Our Farmstay visit is coming to an end, but we are still having a blast. We are all bonding together and enjoying life out of the city. Everyone seems to be enjoying the animals.

-Matthew

Farm Stay 4: Day 16

Today was an amazing day. Our E1 mentees came out to the land school to spend the day with us, and we had a great time. One of the highlights was exploring the stream with me and some other people and all of our mentees. We went all the way up to the tree of life and had a fun time jumping around and climbing trees. In the morning, we gave quite a few presentations on what we did out here, from tapping maple trees to gather sap to making pizzas. After a lunch where the mentees got to try our homemade pizza and our homemade syrup, we all went out to the A-field to play some games. We then went and explored the stream. After the mentees left, we did some cleaning and we had a relaxing evening. All in all, it was a great way to spend our last full day on Farmstay.
-Augie

Farm Stay 4: Day 15

So far I have been having a great time on Farmstay. Yesterday we did an activity that was probably my favorite activity yet. We divided up into our mentor groups (each group has three or four people) and went on a hike. On our hike we followed a path that Jen had drawn out for us on a map. My group almost did a full circle of the Land School! On my hike we saw many interesting things. We found a snake, snow that hadn't melted yet, and even part of an old car seat. This hike was also a great time to get to know people in your group a lot better. Overall I had a great time on the hike and it is definitely something I will remember from my last Farmstay.

-Henry

Farm Stay 4: Day 14

In the morning Callie’s group taught Andy’s group to do Animal care at 7am. At 7am Katie’s group did breakfast and at 7:30am Jen’s group did cleanup. At 8am the science period started and ended at 9am giving the beginning of Morning meeting, the topic of the journaling was “things that you want to remember.” The morning meeting ended and Occupations began at 10am. In the farm Occupation we talked about the website that we were making and did greenhouse work. After Occupations ended, we did a mentor lunch at 12 to talk with your mentor and check in with him, when mentor lunch ended and all the groups arrived at the house we started the MicroEco Report Back and Clean Up at 1pm in which we determined if we made money or not at the event. At 3:30 we started Physical Expression and we played "The Most Dangerous Game" (which is actually not dangerous at all). At 4:30 we started Daily Jobs and at 5pm Student Led Diner began, the students prepared burgers and ice cream shakes. At 7pm Study Hall we planned the E1 mentee visit in which we decided what we were going to do when they came on Wednesday. At 8:30 the Closing started and Andy’s group went to do evening animal care. In the closing we talk and shared stories, and at 9pm we went to the wings and at 9:30 Lights off and finally at 10pm “GO TO SLEEP OR PRETEND TO BE ASLEEP!”

-Sebastian

Farm Stay 4: Day 14

Today, we had Science and then Occupations after that we had a mentor lunch where we checked in with our mentors and talked about the group in general. After that we had a Micro-Eco wrap up where we figured out how much money we made at the event. We had a student-led dinner where Evan, Gavin, and I made burgers, malts and fries. Overall, it was a great day despite how everyone was starting to get fed up with each other.
-Rohan