Dear Parents,
In celebration of 125 years of growing strong girls, the JK-12 service coordinators at St. Catherine’s School have planned an exciting, hands-on service opportunity for all of our students through Shalom Farms, a non-profit farm that works with local communities to assure access to healthy food and the support to live healthy lives.
On Tuesday, March, 22 from 11:00am-3:25pm, Grade 7 and Grade 4 students and faculty will travel together by school bus to Shalom Farms in Goochland County to plant potatoes that our Grade 3 and Grade 9 students will have prepared for us. Each participant should wear clothes (jeans and t-shirts are acceptable) and closed-toe shoes that can get dirty, as well as layers in accordance with the weather. Volunteers should also bring a water bottle and a bag lunch (bag lunches will be provided for students who buy lunch at school). The farm has work gloves for our students and teachers to use, but participants may bring their own if they would like.
Through this hands-on experience at the farm, the Grade 7 and Grade 4 students and teachers will help Shalom Farms grow food that will provide the Richmond community with accessible nutritional choices. During this 125th anniversary of our school’s founding, we are proud to continue to live our original motto, “What we keep we lose, only what we give remains our own.”
Sincerely,
St. Catherine's Service Coordinators
Ashley Miller, Ali Bonnell, Sherry Oelkers, Drew Johnson
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