February: Mushrooms

Mushrooms will be available at your school on Monday, February 9^th by 1 pm.

1. Contact your teacher to schedule a time for your tasting.
2. Check with your teacher if any students have food allergies.
3. Take the Harvest of the Month home and prepare them for your tasting! There are many recipe ideas included in the handouts, but you can always keep it simple.
4. Look over the curriculum and plan key education nuggets you think your class will enjoy.
5. Return the green canvas bag the produce came in to the pick up location.

1. Coming soon

• Mushrooms are fungi, not plants. This means that unlike plants, mushrooms don't use sunlight to make their own food through photosynthesis.
• Mushrooms break down dead plants and animals, recycling nutrients back into the ecosystem.
• The main body of a fungus, called mycelium, lives underground as a giant network of tiny threads.
• Mushrooms have a fifth primary taste called "umami," along with sweet, sour, salty, and bitter.
• Mushrooms have been used for food and medicine for thousands of years!

• Sweet and Sour Mushrooms
• 20-minute Mushroom Orzo
• TFH Registered Dietitian Recipe: Miso Garlic Butter Mushrooms

• Creekside: Front office
• Donner Trail: Front office (produce goes on the Donner Trail bus at 8 am)
• Glenshire: Front office
• Kings Beach: Teacher lounge (across from the main office)
• SELS: Front office
• Tahoe Lake: Outside main office
• Truckee: Teacher lounge (across from the main office)