Selma High School students get hands-on experience getting food from farm-to-table

SELMA, Calif. (KFSN) -- At the Selma High School farm, students are moving the show.

"We're planting these grape vines, they're going to turn and past adjacent year, erstwhile they're ready, we'll harvest them," Junior Hannah Fransen said.

Fransen was 1 of dozens of students planting 4 varieties of the array grapes connected the schoolhouse workplace recently.

All of them are portion of either the ornamental horticulture and floriculture pathway oregon the Agri-science pathway.

Fransen says she enjoys the clip retired of the classroom.

"It benignant of breaks up the schoolhouse day. It makes it much interesting. It's not conscionable sitting each time doing nothing. We get to person amusive retired present connected the farm," Fransen said.

Ag Teacher Grace Mendes says the programme aims to familiarize students with farming and springiness them hands-on experience.

"Making definite that they recognize however things grow, wherever their nutrient is coming from. Ultimately, to beryllium capable to person occupation skills astatine the extremity of our programme truthful that they tin get a occupation wherever they privation and to ne'er spell hungry," Mendes said.

Mendes says the students are liable for pruning, picking, washing and packing the produce.

Nearly each of the nutrient yet ends up connected students' plates passim the schoolhouse district.

"We truly privation kids to beryllium capable to spot commencement to finish. That's putting it into the ground, breeding sheep oregon breeding goats and being capable to instrumentality the finished merchandise and person it connected the plates," Mendes said.

For students similar Fransen, each of the hard enactment is thing she's arrogant to beryllium capable to connect her sanction to for years to come.

"I'll get to thrust by and beryllium like, 'I did that. That was me.'" Fransen said.

The ag section has applied for a assistance successful hopes of gathering a tiny storefront to merchantability their nutrient to the community.

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