EUSD Farm Lab

As the school year winds down, the work on the farm ramps up. From the greenhouse to the fields, there is evidence of the abundance that will be available on school salad bars and for educational programming when students return for the 26-27 school year. What’s in your lunch?🥬🍉🥕🍊🍅🎃🥒

All visiting EUSD 2nd graders develop a deep understanding of pollination and its integral connection to the sustainability of our food sources. Students observe the structure of flowers, tour the farm, plant seeds, and learn about the many different pollinators. Students also discover that pollinator numbers are declining, the contributing factors, and potential impacts. No chocolate without pollinators? No strawberries? Yikes! 2nd graders know why pollination matters - and how humans can help!

Thank you for your generous donation of organic ingredients to support the dressing design challenge, Salad Wars, at EUSD Farm Lab! Your gift supports a week long entrepreneurial unit for 6th graders that exemplifies empowered learning, confident collaboration, skilled communication, innovative thinking, global citizenship, and being a wellness advocate.

Which student created dressing company is your favorite?!? 🥗😋

Got natives? Third graders explored Farm Lab’s expansive native gardens when they attended their Native DREAMS Campus learning experience at Farm Lab. Students learned to identify native plants on site and discover the numerous insects, pollinators, and animals that need them to survive. Students also learned that Farm Lab was a barren, dirt lot only eleven years ago, and had the opportunity to see, first hand, the value and impact of ecosystem restoration. To take action, third graders collaboratively designed scaled, native gardens that can build habitat and restore biodiversity. These designs could be planted at school, home, or in the community. Bonus? They make seed balls to ‘spread’ their knowledge. 🙂

Wishing you all a wonderful holiday season filled with presence, joy, laughter, and rest….

In this season of gratitude, we want to take a moment to highlight farm volunteers! Our farm team relies heavily on volunteer support, and we could not be more grateful for the many community members that make time to dig in with us. 🙏🏼💚🌱

Want to join us? We have open hours Tuesday, Thursday, Friday, and Saturday from 8:30-12!

I spy the Farm Lab team - in the corn field! Happy fall, y’all. 🌽🍂

October is National Farm to School month, and EUSD is celebrating more than a decade of its nationally recognized farm to school program. 🚜🥬 Follow along with us all month long as we share a closer look at Child Nutrition Services and the amazing work happening at Farm Lab. We’re excited to celebrate how far we’ve come in bringing fresh, healthy, and sustainable food to our students! 🥗