Middlebury College - Coop - Orchard - Dairy Farm

It is so hot today again.

What is sustainability? We learned about the Middlebury College's effort to integrate sustainability throughout the institution, and visited a Japanese Studies class. In the afternoon, we visited the Middlebury Natural Food Cooperative, Champlain Orchard, where we enjoyed apple cider, and Millborne Farm, not Melbourne Farm, where we tasted a variety of drinkable yogurt.

the State House - Green Restaurant - UVM

We were on the guided tour of the State House in Montpelier.

Paul introduced the Working Landscapes Initiative Bill, finishing with an introduction to the Agency of Agriculture.

We traveled to Burlington for lunch at Green House, Magnolia Bistro, and then walked to the University of Vermont. We enjoyed the campus tour and visited Aiken Hall. Finally we learned about Agroecology.

Maple Syrup Farm

We visited the maple syrup farm. We learned how to make syrup from sap in the sugar house.  The farmer in the photo was showing us how to collect sap from the tree.

(Sunday, 18 March)

State Championship

In the afternoon, some students had a good experience of watching the basketball (girls') State Championship game. Mt. Abe lost the game, but the team did the best.

We found that the way of watching or cheering up their own teams was a little different from ours. People really seemed to enjoy the game.

Potluck lunch

After the orientation in the morning, we had a potluck lunch at Mt. Abe's cafeteria. We enjoyed many different local meals, thanks to host families. Saturday, 17 March

Warm Saturday

It is a beautiful Saturday morning. It is much warmer than I expected. In fact, they say it is unusually warm. We are going to go to the championship basketball game this afternoon, which is really a big event!

Detroit airport

We are at the Detroit airport!
Friday, 16 March

Detroit

I'm one of the leader of tottori delegation. We arrived at Detroit safe and sound.

mmk meals :D **

Hello, I'm Momoka.

I'm 16 years old. And I'm a 10th student.

Let me be your friend!!

And...

I'm sorry for late to write it.

From now on, I'll tell you about my meals.

** morning

I had bread and a glass of the vegetable juice.

( Sorry, I forgot taking picture X( )

** lunch

I had 3 rice balls.

The left one is flavor of salt. And it is used the Korean laver.

The center one is flavor of salmon.

The right one is flavor of chicken teriyaki.

I had these with my club friends.

** dinner

I had mochi-shabu at the restaurant, seisuian.

Mochi-shabu is thin slices of rice cake parboiled in hot soup.

I also ate thin slice of pork.

It was very delicious!!

I’m looking forward to seeing everyone on the 16^th J !!

Prompt Questions

Vermont is a major farming state.  There are vegetable farms, turkey farms, cow farms for milk and beef.  Some products famously produced in Vermont are Ben and Jerry's ice cream, milk, cheese, and maple syrup.  My favorite product that Vermont is famous for would have to be either maple syrup or Ben and Jerry's ice cream.  They are both so delicious.  Venison, meat from deer, is a food that is very important to my family.  My dad is a hunter, and we would much rather eat meat from a free ranged animal than from a large scale production farm.  I wish that Vermont was able to grow fruit because we have to have fruits like bananas and oranges shipped from other parts of the country and world like Florida or Costa Rica.  My school has been working really hard to serve locally grown food.  My school has a garden and most of the vegetables grown go right to the lunches.

Aylee's response to the prompts

-Are there any foods that your state or prefecture is famous for? What are they? 
In the New England area and up through Canada there are a lot of Sugar Maple trees. It is from these trees that we make maple syrup. There are lots of local businesses producing Maple Syrup but a lot of people make it for fun, like us. We live on a farm with 5 or 6 good sized Sugar Maples right by the house. We drill holes into the trunk and hammer in spigots which are little metal tubes. The sap from inside the tree trunk runs thought the tube and into a bucket we have hung on the spigot. if the temperature is sunny in the day and freezing in the night, the sap begins to flow. We boil it down in an evaporating pan until it is thick. Thats how we make syrup. Vermont is known for Maple syrup and now is the season for it so I am sure all of you who are coming from Japan will get to experience it first hand. 


-What is your favorite locally produced food?
Each summer my father maintains a huge garden in which we grow all kinds of vegetables such as carrots, tomatoes, potatoes, beans, peas, beets, corn, broccoli, pretty much anything you can think of. Aside from that we have a small apple orchard and a huge raspberry patch. These are all great but my favorite thing of all is the strawberry patch. In the peak of the season there are gallons of strawberries each day. There is also local meat from cows we raise and Venison (deer meat) from hunting season. I don't have a favorite food, i like that there is such a variety. i would never want to live in the city because of how great it is to be able to walk outside and have fresh food growing abundantly everywhere. 

Izzy's Response to Prompts

        

Response to Prompts

         A number of fruits and vegetables are grown in Vermont during the summertime.  A few of the crops the local farm I’ve worked on grows are strawberries, blueberries, tomatoes, peas, garlic, raspberries, spinach, lettuce, and carrots.  While it grows numerous produce, Vermont is best known for our maple syrup and cheese.  As this past February has been unusually warm, many producers have begun tapping their trees for sap much earlier than the traditional first Saturday of March.  My family has about six maple trees on our small amount of land, and we use a small griddle on our back porch to make our own maple syrup.  Last year we boiled enough sap to have a full gallon of maple syrup for us to pour on pancakes and waffles, (we still have some we haven’t yet consumed). 

         Although my family doesn’t make my favorite Vermont food product, I still enjoy eating it immensely…cheese!  While our local farmers markets are open, my family takes advantage of the many vendors that sell their cheese.  Blue Ledge Goat Farm sells the best goat cheese, we can’t resist buying even a small portion to bring home and enjoy with a cracker and our home grown berries (strawberries, blueberries, and raspberries).

comment for Sumire's opinon

---school doesn't try to use the locally food.

I thinks so, too. My school also doesn't do. You know, the menus are limited, about 10 menus (I'm not sure), they don't change everyday. In other words, my school cafeteria provide us the same dishes everyday. For example,
*oyakodon: a bowl of rice topped with chicken and eggs cooked together
*hamburger steak set meal
*deep-fried chicken set meal
*fried potato
*onigiri   ...etc.
It might me hard to use the food produced at local, because if they use the loally food, the amount of ingredients to order is little so the cost will be high, because all students in my school don't use cafeteria.
But, to me, I'd like to eat the locally food.

Locally Produced Food

  I don't think my high school does try to serve locally produced food.

  In my high school, most students bring own boxed lunch. In Japan, this is traditionally normal style. Most mothers make it for their children in the early morning.When we have school trip, club activities, competitions, or sports festivals, our mothers also kindly make us delicious and healthy meals. Even if it was not mothers, grand mothers or sometimes fathers or someone make us lunch.
  School lunch is not required to serve locally produced food.  Of course, if I got up late and my mother couldn't make it, we would have lunch there. Otherwise we don't usually use school lunch because we bring boxed lunch. Then we don't think that school lunch should be served with the locally produced food. Finally, the workers for school lunch also wouldn't be needed to serve lunch with the locally produced food.

  That is why I don't think that high school is asked to serve locally produced food.

 
 
 
 
 

Response to the Prompts

  One of my favorite food is "La France", which is a kind of European Pear. Yet European pears cannot be produced in Tottori Prefecture. They come mainly from Yamagata Prefecture. More than 60% of pears eaten in Japan are produced in Yamagata. They are transported to our Prefecture by truck. Since it takes time for pears to ripe after harvested, they aren't needed to transport so quickly.

 

 breakfast

bread kobe 

egg tottori 

retas　awaji  peninsula 

  

 lunch

in restaurant .

this is Japanese food.

dinner

beef made in Japan

Welsh onion Tottori

siitake　mushroom　made in Japan

Konnyaku Hiroshima

※Konnyaku

konnyaku is made from sweetpotato's stem.

 this food has no taste. 

I'm sorry delayed renew:(
I'm looking forward to meeting  with everyone.

Reiko tamagawa <33

Meal - Isabel Brennan

   These are my meals for the day. My family and I like to do a lot of cooking, so many of the meals that we eat will be homemade and fresh. (All of these meals for this day are homemade.) 

For breakfast, I had pancakes with bacon, bananas, apples, strawberries, maple syrup and raspberry juice. The pancakes are homemade, and so is the syrup!
 This is the type of breakfast that I normally have on the weekends.
On school days I have cereal, granola, yogurt, eggs, toast, cream of wheat, bagels or oatmeal. 

For lunch, I had a tuna fish sandwich with lettuce and cheese inside. On the side, I had pickles with my sandwich, and I also had milk to drink with it. Some other lunches that I may eat are: pizza, egg salad sandwiches, soup, bagels, grilled cheese, spaghetti or mac and cheese.(The list goes on) 

For dinner, my family and I made homemade pizza. There are two different kinds of pizza in this picture, cheese and pepperoni. I had root beer to drink with my pizza, and also a salad for a side dish.

HELLO*:)!!

My name is Atsuki Yomi.
I'm 16 and I'm 10th grade.
I belong to the drama club.

I like listening to music , watching movies and musicals.
I'm interested in forign culture.

Recently I'm interested in The Beatles and studing to German language(very slightly).

and

I'll taking about my meals.

2/28 2012

<morning>

yaki-saba,Korean stew and rice.
The saba is made in Sakaiminato Tottori.
Garlic chive of Korean stew is made in Tottori too.
The rice is made by my father.


<lunch>
at school

There are made by my mother.
The cabbage of sandwich are made in Tottori.


<dinner>

The yellowtail ,kimchi fried rice.
The rice is made my father too.



Nice to meet you *;)!!

-Atsuki

Response to the Questions

In Tottori, we have many special products;

*rakkyo(Chinese scallion): we usually eat the pickled one.

*white leek: 15 kind of leeks are produced.

*water melon: produced in the middle part of Tottori in summer. Some of them are exported to Dubai, The U.A.E and are liked by the royals! In Tottori, generally, we can buy them for about 1,000yen per one, but in Dubai, they were sold for 300,000yen per one! Did you know that?

*persimmon: the sweetest kind of persimmons are produced.

*20th century pear: start to market in the end of August.

*crub: opening the fishing season is on November 6th.

In addition, we have two ports in Tottori, Sakaiminato-Port and Karo-Port. We have large fish catches!

My favorite locally produced food is white leek because it can be used for many dishes. For example, nabe(Japanese one pot meal), gratin, noodles such as pasta and ramen, use as yakumi(the spice vegetables that add flavor to the dish).

And it's also delicious to eat just cut bit-size and roasted one<3 

Introduction Yumiko Moriwaki

Hi, there! I'm Yumiko Moriwaki. I'm 16 years old, and am in 10th grade. I like listening to music, scrapbooking, playing kyudo (Japanese archery), talking with my friends...etc. I also love movies!! Especially, TWILIGHT saga is the best. In addition, I like eating, but I'm bad at cooking...kkk.
I'm interested in American lifestyle, pop-music and food. I'm looking forward to seeing you soon. I can't wait!! See you soon!

Meals Ken Matsumoto

February 12

Breakfast

I usually have rice and miso soup for breakfast, but this morning I ate bread. I had bread with blueberry jam, yogurt, orange, banana, milk and tomato juice.

Lunch

I take lunch box to school weekdays, but this day was Sunday so I cooked by myself and ate udon, traditional Japanese noodles. The green stuff is leek, long green onion.

Dinner

For dinner, I ate German potato, tofu, carpaccio, nimono and rice. German potato includes potato, sausage and onion.Carpaccio is made of raw salmon with extra virgin olive oil and slised onion. Nimono is a kind of Japanese pot-au-feu including konnyaku, a gelatious food made from devil's-toungue starch,  jakoten, tempra of small fish, and usuage, fried thin sliced tofu.

\ Introduce my meal /

This is a typical day's menu.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　








breakfast
　butter toast,coffee,lemon yogurｔ

 　　　
lunch
　　Chinese noodle （ramenn）

　





 　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　


afternoon snack

　　　　rice cake.

　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　　









dinner　
 fugu nabe is called fugu chiri as chiri means 
a hot pot with sliced.　

Inside,there are globefish,corn marigold, Japanese　mushroom,
　　　
carrot,napacabbage,tofu,Japanese radish,yuzu vinegar.

Aylee Tudeks Meals

Dinner of chicken pot pie over rice, green beans, beets, and salad

 breakfast; cranberry walnut toast with butter

Lunch; a pear, yogurt, a bagel and cream cheese 

my meals

My meals of a day.


For breakfast



I ate rice, omelets, a grilled fish, boiled spinach seasoned with soy sauce, and miso soup.


For lunch



I ate cod roe spagheffi, lettuce and Japanese white radish and tuna salad.


For dinner



I ate rice, chicken, miso soup and macaroni salad.

My meals

Hi! My name is Tsukasa Shinohara. Nice to meet you.

My breakfast was rice, miso soup, meatballs, tamagoyaki (Japanese omelet),

 kinpira (stir-fried lotus root and chicken), and cod roe.

My breakfast and lunch was same foods.Because my mother was very busy,

so she couldn't cooking another foods.

I'm sorry I forgot taking picture.

My dinner was rice, miso soup, stir-fried harusame and napa cabbege,

boiled daikon (Japanese radish) and tofu, deep-fried shrimp, and cabbege.

I like eating, so, I ate a lot!

Saki's meals

I'm sorry to have become late.
My name is Saki Nakayama. Nice to meet you!


1.morning
I ate Pizza toast,milk,banana.

2.lunch
I ate lunch which my mother cooked.
I bring it,and eat  at shool everyday.
My mother makes it in early morning.

3.dinner
I ate Sukiyaki.
It is famous Japanese food.
I use beef,vegetable,egg and so on. They were made in Tottori.
It is delicious(^_^)！

Haruna's three meal

I'm sorry foｒ late post...
Nice to meet you, my name is Haruna Uramon,I'm 11th grade girl(^^)
I ate rice, miso soup and boiled eggs for break fast, sorry no picture.
For lunch,I ate "soba"←it's japanese nodle and so healthy) in the Japanese restarant.
 

For dinner, I ate cabbages salad, miso soup, hamburger steak and tofu.

I'm on a diet, so I ate tofu instead of rice.
All meals were so delicious（*^_^*）

Caisey Kureks Meals for 2/25/12

For breakfast I ate scrambled eggs with some venison. (Deer meat) 

For lunch I Had macaroni and cheese. Yummy one of my favorites. :)

For dinner I enjoyed a kielbasa dish I used to love as a child, it has sharp cheddar cheese, peas, rice, mushroom pieces, and slices of kielbasa.  

And The best for last my favorite ice cream for dessert! :)

Response to Prompts- Isabel Brennan

Vermont produces many different types of food, some more popular than others. Some foods and companies that Vermont is know for and famous for are: Maple Syrup, Cabot Cheese, Ben and Jerry's Ice Cream, Champlain Chocolates, and also King Arthur Flour. There are many other foods that Vermont produces, such as corn, apples, milk, butter and other dairy, wine, berries, potatoes, lettuce, beans, and many other types of foods. One of my favorite locally produced foods is corn because its delicious, easy to find, not too expensive, and easy to cook. There are many fish and animal products produced by Vermont, such as pork, beef, deer, many different types of fish and also a variety of poultry. With all of these types of food produced in our state, you would think that the schools all have food that is produced locally, right? For some schools, thats not the case. Mt.Abe has improved so much over the last couple of years with the meals that they produce. Mt.Abe has a garden where they grow lettuce, tomatoes, peppers, carrots, and many other vegetables. All of those vegetables are used to make the school lunches, which is really great. There are also other products at Mt.Abe that are locally produced, such as Cabot Cheese, and Monument Farms Milk. At Mt.Abe, it used to be all greasy, gross food that was served, like chicken patties, fish burgers, and curly fries. Its good to know that I am now eating food that is locally produced, because that also means that I am supporting near-by farms and businesses.

Taylor's Intro

Please excuse me for this late post, I have been way out of the loop and now I will attempt to jump back in. I am Taylor Allred, now 17 years old, I live in the village of Bristol with my parents and 3 brothers. I have been studying Japanese language and culture for several years now and I am very exited to finally be a part of this program. I love to play musical instruments(anything with strings), sing, play games, work with computers, learn languages, and study Kenpo Karate. I am very exited to get started

私はテイラアレドです。１７歳です。私は日本語の勉強するが大好きです。

Introduction- Isabel Brennan

  Hello, my name is Isabel Brennan and I am 14 years old. I live in Monkton, and I am in ninth grade at Mt.Abraham Union High School. I enjoy playing basketball, soccer, and softball. I love skiing in the Winter, and swimming in the Summer. I have one brother, Ian, and he is 16 years old. I also have two dogs, two cats, one horse, two sheep and some chickens. I enjoy playing the piano, and hanging out with my friends. I also like biking and reading. I love baking with my family and friends, and I baby-sit from time to time. I am interested in photography, and graphic design. I like to hike and run, no matter what season it is. I have never been a host to an exchange student before, so I am really excited to be hosting someone! This will be a lot of fun, and I can't wait!  Dewa mata! 

       -Isabel Brennan

My three Foods

For breakfast I had toast with cinnamon on top ( this picture is from google...I don't use nearly as much cinnamon!) And I also have a glass of milk.

For Lunch I ate a turkey sandwich with mayo, mustard, american cheese, turkey and lettuce.

And for dinner I had my favorite meal which is spaghetti with meat sauce and garlic bread!

Yujiro's meals

Breakfast ;Mixed nuts&fruits bread.

Most ingredients depend on impoted ones.

Lunch;Daily set manu.

(clock wise from rice)Rice,Fried fish&Salad,Baked chicken&fish tasted with Soy Sauce,pickles,Miso soup & Fish with Taro

Dinner;Udon noodles with Beaf(Sorry,I forgot to take a photo before eating)