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By Matt Pelkey
Rapp;ihaniuvk NVws Start Writer
Two recently awarded grants totaling $12,000 will help put more locally grown greens on Rappahannock students’ plates.
Trista Scheuerlein, Fann-to-Table director, received notice that the school fanning program — a collaboration between Rappahannock public schools and the Headwaters Foundation — would be getting $4,500 through a Ixiwes Toolbox for Education grant and $7,500 from the Rappahannock County Farming Bureau, an agricultural organization supporting family farms in Rappahannock.
The money will pay for a heated green house to grow vegetables year round. With the fresh produce. Farmto-Table will stock the salad liars at Rappahannock public schools.
The 14 by-24-foot walk-in green house will shelter plants from winter weather, and coils of heated water will run through the soil bods to keep them warm.
"For a couple years we've been thinking how nice it would lx* to supply food m the winter.” Scheuerlein said.
Prime harvesting season is the summer, when school is out of session. This year, students in the program grew about 550 pounds of fresh produce.
The green house will open up a growing season tilled with educational opportunities for students in the program.
"We're going to grow mostly salad greens for the winter." Scheuerlein said.
Turnips, l vets radishes, lettuce, arugula and spinach are slated to be sown
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