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A Community Garden Takes Root at Rhinebeck Elementary, with Aspirations of Feeding Lunches to Kids
The ultimate goal of the program, jump-started by a parent’s connection to the non-profit Dirty Gaia, is for students to grow part of the food served for lunches at the school, said Principal Brett King. But in the short run, some kids will get hands-on exposure to growing food and tracking the life cycle of plants.
“They literally get to see the product of their effort and interest,” King said.
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Veggies and Pollinators Draw Hundreds to Rhinebeck’s Fourth Annual Edible Gardens Tour
Named for the Greek word for Earth, Dirty Gaia offers educational programs to “reconcile humans’ relationship with the natural world,” say its founders. “A lot of our native pollinators are in decline,” said another of them, Sue Sie. And the reasons are various: land use, pesticide use, and lack of native foliage, she added. By planting natives instead of hybrids or exotic plants, local gardeners can help fight this decline, Sie said.
Dirty Gaia Makes All of Rhinebeck a Community Garden – Edible Gardens Tour This Saturday
In ancient Greek cosmology, Gaia is the goddess of the earth and the mother of all creation. In Rhinebeck, we have something called Dirty Gaia, an environmental organization whose mission is to promote environmental stewardship and bring people together for a more up-close and personal relationship with the local ecosystem.
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