Summer in Sitka doesn’t just bring tourists, it also brings rhubarb, kale, potatoes, carrots, and if your thumbs are green enough, garlic. The 45 students at Pacific High School in Sitka actually begin their academic year each fall gathering the harvest of the school’s edible garden program. The event is called “Stewardship Day.” KCAW reporter-at-large Ryan Morse attended last August and sent this audio postcard.
The food that students grow from the garden is used in the students’ school lunches giving them a deeper connection to the food they eat, their health, and the natural world. Students also prepared soil and planted seeds in the newly-constructed greenhouse for the upcoming school year, which was constructed with support from Sitka Conservation Society, Sitka Tribe of Alaska, and the Sitka community.
