{"id":1317343,"date":"2019-12-19T16:34:10","date_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:34:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.postindependent.com\/?p=991935"},"modified":"2019-12-19T16:34:10","modified_gmt":"2019-12-19T23:34:10","slug":"yampah-highs-taste-of-the-holidays-fundraiser-on-tap-for-saturday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/local-news\/yampah-highs-taste-of-the-holidays-fundraiser-on-tap-for-saturday\/","title":{"rendered":"Yampah High\u2019s Taste of the Holidays fundraiser on tap for Saturday"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n
Yampah Mountain High School students have been working hard to assemble the plantable seed ornaments that will be available at Saturday’s Taste of the Holidays bazaar fundraiser.<\/strong>
Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n

A crop of regionally adapted monster marigold flowers come summer could be just the gift you\u2019re still looking to give, or get, and there\u2019s only one place to find it.<\/p>\n

After being postponed last weekend due to the winter storm, students at Yampah Mountain High School have had another whole week to prepare for their Taste of the Holidays Bazaar on Saturday.<\/p>\n

The event serves as a fundraiser for the school\u2019s Sustainable Science Pod, where students learn<\/a> organic growing, cooking and nutrition methods, build entrepreneurial skills and mentor younger students.<\/p>\n

Among the craft items that will be for sale are plantable seed ornaments made of shredded paper from the school and containing marigold seeds harvested from the school\u2019s gardens.<\/p>\n

A plant variety is considered regionally adapted after growing seeds from the same plants for four years, explained Kim Wille, ag biology teacher at Yampah and founding director of Growing Empowerment.<\/p>\n

\u201cOne of our projects is to build a regional seed bank,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

The marigolds from which this year\u2019s seeds came grew in Wille\u2019s flower garden literally just a few feet from the Lake Christine Fire in the summer of 2018, so they\u2019ve been exposed to the fire and drought conditions that are common in the Roaring Fork Valley.<\/p>\n

\n
\n
Monster marigolds grow in the Yampah Mountain High School gardens this past summer.<\/strong>
Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

\u201cThey have a deep orangish-red color, so they even look like fire,\u201d Wille said.<\/p>\n

Students have been busy making, drilling and stringing hemp twine through the seed ornaments.<\/p>\n

They\u2019ve also been making peppermint bark, caramel popcorn and butter mints (peppermint and spearmint), as well as packaging fresh-dried, organically-grown sage from the school gardens, Wille said. <\/p>\n

\n
\n
Yampah Mountain High School students prepare baked goods for this Saturday\u2019s Taste of the Holidays fundraiser.<\/strong>
Provided<\/em><\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<\/div>\n

The school will also be selling its homemade green tomato salsa, and a limited supply of jams and jellies.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe didn\u2019t make that many jams and jellies this year because fruit trees were pretty barren due to late frosts last spring,\u201d Wille said. \u201cWe will have our ever-popular Jalape\u00f1o Jam, Plum Jelly, and Grape Jelly as well as Luffa Soap, and Gardener\u2019s Hand Salve.\u201d <\/p>\n

Students also serve up some tasty holiday treats, including Wille Chile, Veggie Wille Chili or Pork Chile Verde.<\/p>\n

Recently, CBS4 Denver interviewed Wille and the Yampah students and aired a segment<\/a> on Yampah\u2019s Sustainable Science program.<\/p>\n

jstroud@postindependent.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n

via:: Post Independent<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yampah Mountain High School students have been working hard to assemble the plantable seed ornaments that will be available at Saturday’s Taste of the Holidays bazaar fundraiser.Provided A crop of regionally adapted monster marigold flowers come summer could be just the gift you\u2019re still looking to give, or get, and there\u2019s only one place to […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[160],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1317343","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-local-news"],"acf":[],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-09-06 08:21:36","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"distributor_meta":false,"distributor_terms":false,"distributor_media":false,"distributor_original_site_name":"KSKE Ski Country","distributor_original_site_url":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske","push-errors":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317343","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1317343"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1317343\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1317343"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1317343"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/kske\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1317343"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}