The Mountain School

This past weekend, as I visited one of my many ‘homes’, seeing it in a new light, perspective, I realized how vital it was in shaping this, here, now.

QUICK FACTS: The Mountain School is located on a farm in Vershire, VT, and is a semester school for high school juniors and seniors. Forty-five students are admitted per semester and all learn to keep the farm running while chugging through a normal (if not quite advanced) high school curriculum.

I attended the school for the fall semester of 2013 and feel as though this was the origin of my love for all things food. The Mountain School offers some of the most fresh food you will ever imagine–I would regularly walk down the buffet tables and recognize at least a few things I helped harvest or prep.

Returning to help out at a reunion, I joined Pam in the kitchen to cook for 30+ hours and realized how it was that place, that dining room, that farm that formed this me. This person obsessed with food, interested in how cheese is made and how it is that bread rises and how cooks find their path. It all started here.

the dining hall 

 

the kitchen in all its glory (don’t mind the paper maché piñata–there were a lot of kids to entertain)

my tent site

the double rainbow at about 5:50 AM saturday morning

the english room

Pam herself

our masterpiece–the biggest biscuit ever with strawberry rhubarb compote and homemade whipped cream

serving table in the dining hall and the dish dispensary

the greenhouse

Marilyn, the other cook, is the author of the wonderful granola recipe I shared a while ago. Go check it out «here»!