by Abigail Miller | Nov 12, 2011 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Longmont Montessori, Longmont Preschool, practical life
Most days, children at Bloom! Montessori have the option of purchasing delicious, nutritious lunches from Revolution Foods, a great company started by two mothers and former school teachers who wanted to improve the nutritional standards of American school lunches....
by Abigail Miller | Jun 21, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Food Preparation, life sciences, Longmont Preschool, practical life
“As a genius of construction, man raises himself above the bee in the following way: whereas the bee builds with wax that he gathers from nature, man builds with the far more delicate conceptual material which he first has to manufacture from...
by Abigail Miller | May 10, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Farm to School Program, food cultivation, Food Preparation, Longmont Preschool, practical life
“The beet is the most intense of vegetables. The radish, admittedly is more feverish, but the fire of the radish is a cold fire, the fire of discontent, not of passion. Tomatoes are lusty enough, yet there runs through tomatoes an undercurrent of frivolity....
by Abigail Miller | May 3, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, cuisine, Farm to School Program, Longmont Preschool, Practical Life materials, The Family Table Farm
As part of our membership in Slow Foods USA Farm to School Program, we partner with The Family Table Farm, a local farm owned by Mike and Lisel Record, to purchase naturally grown (without the use of pesticides), local produce. When the CSA (Community Supported...
by Abigail Miller | Feb 14, 2010 | Bloom Montessori School of Longmont, Cooking Projects, Linzer Tarts, Practical Life materials, Valentine's Day
Happy Valentine’s Day! “The child loves us with all his heart and follows us with all the devotion of which his little soul is capable; nevertheless, he has something within himself which governs his inner life: it is the force of his own expansion. It is...
