Students Do Taste-Test of Radishes Grown in School Greenhouse and Garden

Elementary students in the after-school Garden Club harvested their first crop of bright red radishes grown in the ACS greenhouse and garden on May 7. The next day during lunch, elementary students got to taste those radishes and vote on whether they “loved” them, thought they tasted “Okay,” or “did not like” them. Of the 100 K-5 students who participated in the taste test, half of them “loved” the radishes. The harvesting of the radishes and the taste test were overseen by the Garden Club advisors and ACS faculty members Bethany Kiefer and Eric Tardif. Twenty-one elementary students joined the Garden Club this spring. The radishes were planted from seed in the greenhouse in mid-March by the club members and then the seedlings were later planted in the school garden.