He plans to add row coverings to protect some of the plants, increasing the length of the growing season. Many of the plants are harvestable year-round. Justin Peterson, who manages the market garden, said he works closely with Humble Spirit chef Brett Uniss to produce not only a variety of vegetables, herbs and fruits for the restaurant, but also particularly flavorful varieties.Ībout 120 different edible species grow in the 1.5-acre garden, he said. The garden also supplies much of the produce used at Humble Spirit restaurant in downtown McMinnville. Miller said they also wanted students to see the “real life” value of the market garden, which supplies produce for the Source farmstand at 15713 Highway 47, a partnership between Tabula Rasa, Kookoolan Farms and other local growers and meat producers. “We want to engage and encourage the next generation to be part of agriculture,” she said. In addition to hosting more field trips, Miller said, the farm hopes to have students visit for research and projects in the future. Since MHS and other schools have little money for field trip transportation, the TREL Foundation donated funds to the McMinnville Education Foundation for that purpose. Heather Miller, who works with the farm and the Fotis’ foundation, TREL, or Truth, Responsibility, Evolution and Love, said the Mac High groups were the first students to visit there will be more in the future.īrian Altree, who teaches horticulture classes in Mac High’s natural resources pathway, spent time at the farm last summer helping to set up the program. They also toured the farm’s water conservation system, a series of ponds and other features designed to capture water and stop erosion. Porter and other students visited Tammy and Frank Fotis’ sustainable agriculture operation west of Carlton. “It’s fun to see the ponds and hear the animals, and to see a real farm functioning every day,” said Charlie Porter, who pitched in to load wheelbarrows with mulch for the garden. The December weather was cloudy and chilly, with spitting rain, but the market garden at Tabula Rasa was percolating with life when McMinnville High School horticulture students visited last week. Porter and other horitulture class students visited the garden Wednesday. As Ruso and Tilla try to solve the mystery of the two disappearances-while at the same time struggling to keep the peace between the Britons and the Romans-an intricate scheme involving slavery, changed identities, and fur trappers emerges, and it becomes imperative that Ruso find Branan before it's too late.McMinnville High School Charlie Porter spreads mulch in the market garden at Tabula Rasa, which grows produce for a farm stand and for the Humble Spirit restaurant in McMInnville. He was last seen in the company of a lone and unidentified soldier who claimed he was taking the boy to see Tilla. Tensions only increase when Branan, the family's youngest son, also vanishes. It's clear that the sacred rites to bless her marriage to Ruso will have to wait. When the soldiers ransack the nearby farms looking for Candidus, Tilla's tentative friendship with a local family turns to anger and disappointment. A native boy thinks he sees a body being hidden inside the wall's half-finished stonework, and a worrying rumor begins to spread. Then Ruso's recently arrived clerk, Candidus, goes missing. Having been forced to move off their land, the Britons are distinctly on edge and are still smarting from the failure of a recent rebellion that claimed many lives. The medicus Ruso and his wife Tilla are back in the borderlands of Britannia, this time helping to tend the builders of Hadrian's Great Wall.
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