Microgreens at Columbia Heights

Thursday was our last day of teaching at Columbia Heights. The students had testing for part of the morning so we were only able to come in for one class from 10:15-10:45. Because of the block schedule and them not having class last Friday, we had the second class that we did last week. This class did not get to plant the microgreens because we didn't realize that we would have a different class, but they did get the opportunity to observe the microgreens last week and helped water them. During Thursday's class we had the opportunity to eat the microgreens with the students. We brought crackers and cheese and gave them the option of having cheese or not. We had the students help us harvest the trays of microgreens by cutting them with a scissors near the soil surface and wash them. We taught a science class so they had sinks in the classroom. A few of the students tried the pea and sunflower microgreens without crackers at first. It seemed as though most of them did not like the sunflower microgreens. I personally thought that the sunflowers had a little bit of a spicy flavor, but thought they tasted good. The students enjoyed the pea microgreens. Some of the students said that the microgreens tasted like grass. Once they tried the microgreens on the crackers either with or without cheese they liked them more. Overall, I think the class really enjoyed eating the microgreens. Some students came up for 2-3 crackers if they wanted. This was all we had time for in the half hour and the students were pretty rowdy that day probably because they had just tested for an hour and a half and were going to lunch after class. I think the microgreens tasted really good on crackers as well.