photo by David Petrie
Carpinteria High School in Santa Barbara County, California has developed a healthy food program that started with an organic garden. The students quickly embraced the garden and the program has continued to grow. The school’s horticulture class tends the garden every couple of days, the veterinary science students contribute their stable sweepings to the compost pile, the culinary class uses the food grown in the garden as does the cafeteria where lunch is prepared daily using the fresh organic produce.
The garden was started with the support of Carpinteria Unified School District Superintendent Paul Cordeiro who believes that health and education are related, and that garden and culinary classes play an important role in the quality of student’s lives. Carpinteria’s healthy food program continues to grow with plans for a new culinary kitchen where adult classes will also be offered and an on-campus community garden made available to families.
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Tags: California, healthy food, school garden, school lunchs
Its funny that Carpinteria would embrace a community garden project when their city planning and zoning commision will not allow the local greenhouse industry to flourish. There are many greenhouses that need to be updated and built, but there are not any permits given to do so. The planning dept would rather see condos built there than greenhouse, which are producing local vegetables. Ironic dont you think?