Princeton Day School receives the 2015 Overall Winning School Garden of the Year Award at a ceremony on September 21, 2015 . Pictured from left to right are Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, Chair of the PDS Board of Trustees Barbie Griffin Cole ’78, Garden Coordinator Pam Flory, Sustainability Coordinator Liz Cutler and Head of School Paul J. Stellato.
On September 21, 2015 Princeton Day School was presented with the 2015 Overall Winning New Jersey School Garden of the Year Award. The award presentation, which took place in the Petrella Garden Classroom and surrounding PDS garden, coincided with the fifth annual “Jersey Fresh Farm to School Week.”
The New Jersey School Garden of the Year Award was started in 2012 through a collaboration between Edible Jersey Magazine and the New Jersey Farm to School Network, and is open to any New Jersey PreK-12 school.
This year’s entries, close to 200, were judged by a committee of representatives from the NJ Farm to School Network, NJ Department of Agriculture, Rutgers Cooperative Extension Master Gardeners, The NJ Agricultural Society and the NJ Alliance for Environmental Education.
The school was honored to welcome, among others, Beth Feehan, director of New Jersey Farm to School Network; Nancy Painter, publisher of Edible Jersey Magazine; Susan McAleavey from the Eastern Produce Council; and Liz Lempert, Mayor of Princeton. Head of School Paul Stellato and Chair of the Board of Trustees Barbie Griffin Cole ’78 were also at the ceremony, along with Liz Cutler, Sustainability Coordinator and Pam Flory, Garden Coordinator, who applied for the award.
When presenting the award, Feenhan praised the PDS organic garden saying that it represented exactly what this movement—farm to school—is trying to achieve.
The award marks the third impressive accolade the Princeton Day School garden and sustainability program have received, after being awarded both the 2015 New Jersey Green Ribbon Award and 2015 U.S. Department of Education National Green Ribbon Award in the spring.
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Princeton Day School receives the 2015 Overall Winning School Garden of the Year Award, which was started in 2012 through a collaboration between Edible Jersey Magazine and the New Jersey Farm to School Network, and is open to any New Jersey PreK-12 school. Pictured above, from left to right, are Princeton Mayor Liz Lempert, Chair of the PDS Board of Trustees Barbie Griffin Cole ’78, Garden Coordinator Pam Flory, Sustainability Coordinator Liz Cutler, and Head of School Paul J. Stellato.
