The Longfellow School Garden's fall harvest took place on Wednesday, with dozens of kids yanking, pulling, digging, scraping and washing off huge numbers of potatoes and carrots. Many of the children who took part in the harvest were responsible for planting the very same vegetable seeds several months earlier.
Before the harvest, our garden beds were full of carrots stems. But it didn't take long for Longfellow kids to empty them.
The carrots were easier to pull out than the potatoes, which students had to dig through the dirt to find. But they were up to the challenge. With plenty of gloves to go around, kids were sifting through the soil like gold-diggers searching for precious stones.
After the carrots and potatoes were dug up, off they went to the washing bins, where children diligently cleaned off the soil.
In all, 112 pounds of potatoes and a record haul of 140 pounds of carrots were harvested, which will go to Portland School's Central Kitchen to feed the district's schools on Maine Harvest Lunch Day.
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