Team Nutrition Focuses on Fruits and Vegetables

The school garden at Lacoochee Elementary School allows students to do hands-on gardening after school. Last Wednesday their weekly Garden Club meeting was supplemented with a lesson on healthy eating. Team Nutrition met with the group of second and third grade...

SNAP Members Bake with Kumquats

The School Nutrition Association of Pasco County (SNAP) made their annual appearance at the Kumquat Growers Open House last Thursday and Friday in Dade City. While there, members from SNAP sold baked goods that ranged from quick breads to macaroons. They had to adhere...

Paper Pots

How do you turn shreds of newspaper and water into a fundraiser? Well just ask the Garden Club at Veterans Elementary School. Last Wednesday the group set out to make paper pots by forming the water soaked newspaper shreds into cup molds. Under the direction of Susan...

A Time to Plant

Orange, green and purple. Yes, they are colors in a rainbow but they are also colored varieties of cauliflower- according to one 3rd grader at Gulfside Elementary School. She was one of 13 third graders in Mr. Ken Leonard’s class who had their pick of what to plant in...

8th Graders Jingle to Universal Studios

Some jogged and some walked and some even brought basketballs to bounce while completing laps on the track at Thomas E. Weightman Middle School on December 17th. No, it wasn’t during PE class but all in an effort to raise money for their 8th grade class trip to go to...