Robert Frost Students Create Their Own Feast

The eighth grade cultural food classes at Deer Park’s Robert Frost Middle School created their own feast days before Thanksgiving.

The students’ meal consisted of turkey, mashed potatoes and all the trimmings.

In making the feast, which they shared with their classmates, the kids chose recipes and prepared a colorful array of freshly harvested local vegetables from Harbes Family Farm in Jamesport, including carrots, turnips, brussels sprouts, broccoli, purple cauliflower and white and purple potatoes. Desserts included homemade apple pie, crumb cake, chocolate cream pies and biscuits, as well as pumpkin and corn breads.

“We were thankful for the bounty of good food prepared in our beautiful, newly redone family and consumer science rooms,” teacher Paula Behrens said.

Photo by Deer Park School District.