Second Trip to Freshwise

Today we made our second trip out to Freshwise farms and are meeting with them to talk about the various cool class room layouts that we found the prior week. We also planned to update Freshwise about the progress we have made in designing their class room space. During our brainstorming stage we came up with the idea that we should design this space around the activities that would be happening in the class room.
We also defined a objective that we wanted to reach through this space: " To educate New York state youth about local agriculture"

One of the ways we believed would be the most effective way to achieve this objective was to provide the kids with a fun way of learning about agriculture through various activities.We prepared a mock activity that we presented and perform with Freshwise. Since Freshwise farms predominantly grows lettuce, spinach, and various vegetables we decided that a possible good activity would be a Scavenger hunt that asks visitors to find ingredients to the salad.

Depending on the space; Derek was thinking about having a small edible garden just out side of the class room where visitors could actively plant and harvest produce when they visit. Our activity would most likely incorporate this garden. The activity was tested on Derek and some of our group members. The scavenger hunt activity included seeking ingredients in the garden, prepare them to go into a salad (food Prep),creating the salad, and then eating that salad. We hope that this activity might help show kids just where these ingredients come from, what goes into the preparation of the ingredients, as well as even comparing the final product ( the salad) to local store bought salads, explaining why the one they made is better for them. This is just one of the activities we though of and our group took away many more from brainstorming with Derek. We plan on using these activities ideas into design of the class room space.