An Amazing Kickoff Week for Farm to School Month at Marquez

Marquez Charter is celebrating National Farm to School Month for the first time.

This week students were greeted before school on Monday and Tuesday with tastes of plums, peaches, apples, watermelon, carrots, cucumber, strawberry guavas and grapes.

Wednesday before school we celebrated National Kale Day by passing out kale smoothies and kale chips.

Thursday and Friday students ate tomatoes donated by the Gean Farm aka Harry's Berries. Some classes made lettuce wraps with the tomatoes, others made salad or bruschetta and still others just ate them!

Thank you to Frecker Farm, G-Farms and John Givens Farm from the Pacific Palisades Farmers Market and to Gean Farm from the Santa Monica Farmers Market for donating the produce and helping to get our students excited about fruits and veggies!!!

Thanks also to the parents and students that passed out the food before school and to the parents who cooked with their classes! Special thanks to Julie Swift and Winter Armm.