Healthy Schools Project

VUSD students have been enjoying the beautiful berries from Tamai Family Farms during the month of May🍓🍓🍓Ventura Unified School District

VUSD Nutrition and Garden Educator, Rose Wagner, and about 100 EP Foster 4th and 5th graders brought in over 30 pounds of sugar snap peas, cilantro, radishes, kale and onions! For their efforts, each student took home a bag of produce🥗 We were even able to save some broccoli for Mrs. Burrier’s Guinea pigs! Time for our Springtime crops🍓🧅🥬 E.P. Foster STEM Academy

Good things happening in VC🥕🥦🍅👩‍🌾

Growing farm-to-school effort links Ventura County students, at root level, to food Ventura County Farm to School is helping districts and students connect with food at its source.

Here is a fun way to celebrate Halloween with your kiddos! Try it and tell us how your family liked it :)

Halloween Snacks! Looking for some creative halloween snacks to make with your kiddos? Nutrition Specialist Ashley Parrish-Decker from the Healthy Schools Project, will show y...

4th and 5th graders at enjoyed picking the fruits of the labor from last school years Tomato, Cucumber and Corn planting! Each class got to taste something fresh from the garden, the tomatoes will be used in cooking classes, and the corn will be served on Mondays lunch menu!

I spy with my little eye something yellow and black! And just in time for the kiddos return!

are in season! We have a giant Sapote tree at the district learning garden and we harvested 123 lbs of fruit today! We have a few sites still doing lunches for summer, so we were able to distribute all the fruit to our families picking up summer lunches! Fun facts about Sapote Blanco; it’s known as the Mexican Apple, but is actually a fruit in the citrus family. The used the fruit as a . The leaves and bark were used as a sedative and to support diabetes. It’s rich in dietary fiber, potassium, Vitamin C and Iron. Great fruit to add to smoothies and to make ice cream with!

Such incredible good news :)

California Will Launch The Nation's Largest Free Student Lunch Program When classrooms reopen for the fall term, all of the state's 6.2 million public school students will have the option to eat school meals for free, regardless of their family's income.

Local community group Ojai CRA - Center for Regenerative Agriculture is planting 160 fruit trees in Westside front yards, all at no cost to residents. We are focusing on the older neighborhood flats between Main St. and Stanley Ave. We need interested residents who want trees in their front yards to apply AND we are also looking for residents to serve as block captains to help their neighbors to sign up for their trees.
Join us Saturday, June 26th from 9am to 12pm at the Fire Station (corner of Ramona and Ventura Ave.) to learn how you can get a free fruit tree in your Front Yard AND/OR become a block captain to get your friends and neighbors on board too! RSVP to [email protected]
Programa de Plantación de Árboles Frutales
El Centro de Agroecología ha recibido una subvención para plantar 160 árboles frutales en los jardines/patios delanteros en el lado oeste de Ventura (los barrios ubicados en el norte y el sur de Ventura Avenue.) Únete a nosotros el sábado, 26 de Junio desde las 9-12pm en la estación de bomberos (esquina de Ramona y Ventura Ave). Para aprender cómo puedes recibir un árbol de fruta en tu patio delantero, Y/O para ser un capitán para tu cuadra e involucra a tus amigos y vecinos también! RSVP to [email protected]

This past school year, the Healthy Schools project put out the call to the community to support us, so we could continue meeting the needs of the whole child. We are beyond grateful for the support we received from our local, state and national community. Thank you all so much for believing in what we do! Sage Garden Project Sprouts Farmers Market Lux Amare Closed Group Duda Farms Limonera Rincon-Vitova Insectaries Friends of Fieldworkers, Inc. Sunset School PTA Sheridan Way ElemPTA UC Agriculture & Natural Resources Lowe's Home Improvement