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By Ruth Purnell
Rappahannock News Staff Writer
Last Thursday the Rappahannock County Public School’s Farm-to-Table Program started getting ready for Christmas. Christmas a few years down the road that is.
Fifty-eight fifth graders and four high school students from the horticulture class gathered to pot their own personal white pines and to plant 250 more trees on the property of Sandra Richardson who generously donated her land as home for the trees and a place to spend the afternoon learning.
It will take approximately seven years for the trees to mature so when these fifth graders, the class of 2012, are seniors, their trees will be ready to harvest. The trees will then be sold as a fund raiser for the Farm-to-Table Program as well as the horticulture department. “We are one step closer to becoming a self-sustaining program,” said Farm-to-Table coordinator Trista Sheuerlein. The program is currently being funded by the generous donations of Sunnyside Farms and Jeff Franzen of Washington, Va. “It will be nice to close the loop between our needs and what we can provide for ourselves,” said Sheuerlein.
Over the next seven years students from the horticulture class will continue maintaining the trees planted on Richardson’s property. Students will have to mow between the trees, and learn to prune them into the characteristic Christmas tree
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