Field trip to Food Dance

It was an exciting start to Garden Camp today. There was a lot of rain last night and branches down outside. The roof was also being repaired, but our part of the building was fine. We started with breakfast, journaling, and writing a list of questions to ask when we get to Food Dance. Yes, today we went to Food Dance Restaurant in downtown!

Before leaving for the field trip, we worked on the flower beds in front of the school and planted many daisies. We also pulled weeds. Our school is looking better every day and we are doing our part! After cleaning up, it was time to leave for our field trip!

Here is a video that shows what we did at Food Dance.



Food Dance buys as much of their food and products from local and Michigan farmers as they possibly can. They are doing what we learned about yesterday: buying from local places helps to keep money and jobs in our local area! This was especially interesting to us as gardeners because we are growing fresh vegetables and fruits. These are the kinds of things a business like Food Dance would buy for their restaurant.

The nice people at Food Dance gave us all a brownie to take back to school to enjoy for our afternoon snack. It was extra neat to eat them because we knew they were made from locally grown ingredients. While we enjoyed the brownies, we listened to Miss Smith read out loud to us. We also picked pictures and wrote captions for our story book with Mr. Gettig.

Tomorrow is the Fourth of July, which means Happy Birthday America! See you next week!