opal creek
farm to school
The Opal Creek Farm to School program is made possible by a California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) Farm to School grant. Through this program, Opal Creek Farm sells produce to schools in California, hosts field trips for schoolchildren and community members, and provides educational material about agriculture and the environment.
We serve schools with students who are participants in the free hot lunch program. All of us at Opal Creek Farm believe every person deserves access to nourishing, fresh food, and to learn about healthful foods and farming.
Interested in getting your school involved with Opal Creek Farm? Get in touch!
Selling Produce
To Schools
We started selling our produce to schools in 2023 – 👋 to Pacific Elementary School! Kindergarten through fifth grade students love our organic tomatoes, snap peas, peppers, and strawberries. (Okay, especially the strawberries, but they’re only available seasonally.) The dry-farmed sungold tomatoes are the perfect size for lunchboxes.
The high season of our production is from August through October. We can make weekly deliveries to your district, whether you are looking for high volumes or modest amounts of produce.
We would love to send some Opal Creek Farm produce to your local school. Get in touch, and we’ll get started.
field trips
to the farm
There’s no better way to learn about how your food was grown than to see it growing. That’s why we love having classes take a field trip to Opal Creek Farm, where students get a tour, a produce tasting, and a lesson on organic food production and farming, water-wise farming, plant life cycles, biodiversity, and soil health. Our field trip curricula support STEM learning and environmental eduction and can be tailored to suit the learning goals of Kindergarten through university level students.
To set up a farm field trip, contact us.
There’s even more to see on the
opal creek farm blog
Visit the Opal Creek Farm blog for news, updates, and educational materials for your classroom or children.
meet joanna
opal creek farm’s
farm to school coordinator
Joanna Ory manages Opal Creek Farm’s Farm to School program, including curriculum development, leading and planning school field trips to the farm, and writing educational content.
Joanna has a Ph.D. in environmental studies from the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of California, Berkeley in 2021 that examined soil health on the California Central Coast. She has also lectured at UCSC and developed educational materials for the Organic Farming Research Foundation.
These days, she’s sharing her excitement about sustainable agriculture and environmental education with children at Opal Creek Farm.
thank you
to the California Department of Food and agriculture for awarding Opal Creek farm with a grant from the Farm to School Incubator Program and making our farm to school program possible.