Today was Harvest Festival in Lucy's kindergarten. Only parents of the older children are invited to participate in this event, under the careful, loving orchestration of the teachers. Days in advance, the children bring organic vegetables, which teacher Mary transforms into a delicious vegetable soup. The other class makes a bread shaped like a dragon. Much of the morning of the harvest festival, the children are participating in the preparations for the harvest feast. They "churn" cream into butter in glass jars - this definitely should be tried at home! The butter it yields is the most delicious I've tasted! They help cut the apples to be pressed into apple cider. They create garlands made from chestnuts, fruit and flowers to hang from a long ribbon over the tables. The tables are covered in red cloth and set. Just as the children sat down at their places, the sun burst from behind the clouds right on their faces. They held hands and sang the usual grace:
For the golden corn and the apples on the trees
For the golden butter and the honey from the bees
For fruits and nuts and berries we gather on our way
We praise our loving Mother Earth
And thank her every day.
Blessings on our meal and
Peace be on the Earth.
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