Come next fall, Starlight Elementary School’s 600 students will find more of their daily education in their new nationally financed garden. They’ll work the soil — and learn culinary skills, food and kitchen safety, health and nutrition, and lots about food culture. Then, there’s the in-their-hands science: learning biological sciences while studying plants and insects, data collection, conservation and environmental science and weather and climate.
The Watsonville school received about $2 million to make the project possible.
The Emeril Lagasse Foundation named Starlight Elementary the fourth school in the United States to construct an Emeril Culinary Garden and Teaching Kitchen. Celebrity chef Emeril Lagasse launched the foundation in 2002 to promote garden learning for children.
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