The Green Academy at Rosemont High

The Green Academy: Urban Ag, Food, and the Environment

Mission:

The Green Academy at Rosemont High prepares students for college and career through the study of Biology, Environmental Science, and Culinary Arts. Students learn about food production, cooking, natural resources, and the environment.

Description:

Learn to cook in a professional kitchen and work in the school gardens on campus while taking classes required for graduation and college admissions. Students can earn 3 units of college credit through American River College when completing all of the work in Advanced Culinary. Graduates of the Green Academy continue on to college and obtain jobs in local industry. Our classes include:

9th Grade “Yourself, Our Campus, Our Community”

Biology: Cooking requires the cultivation of living things and transforming them into food. Microbiology can transform certain foods into something delicious to consume or into something dangerous. The more farmers and chefs know about biology and microbiology, the better prepared they are to produce safe and delicious food.

10th Grade “Individual Choice and Global Impacts”  

Environmental Science Farm to Fork: Discover our relationship to different ecosystems as individuals, farmers and professional cooks. Learn about the basics of growing food as well as water and land use issues.

11th Grade “The Individual, the Environment, and American Society”

Culinary Arts: Learn cooking skills in a professional kitchen including bak- ing, pasta making and cooking techniques such as sauté, grilling, and roasting. Receive ServSafe foodhandler training, develop knife skills and become proficient at culinary math.

12th Grade “Careers, Ethics, Sustainability, and Responsibility”

Advanced Culinary: Cooking projects, public events, guest speakers, and caterings help students explore career options in Culinary Arts, Agriculture, and sustainable food systems. Completing the coursework for ARC’s “HM100 – Calculations in Foodservice Occupations earns college credit, as well as professional and academic skills.

Every year Green Academy Culinary students participate in public events such as The Green Restaurant Alliance Sacramento Compost Festival, “A Day on the Farm” at Soil Born Farms, and The Farm To Fork Festival on the Capitol Mall. Our students go on to college - including the Culinary Arts program at American River College. Graduates of the Green Academy have gone on to work at The Red Rabbit, Seasons 52, The Navy, and Rick’s Dessert Diner.