Loma Vista Environmental Science Academy

We seek to increase students' knowledge of nature and nutrition while enhancing academic learning, ecoliteracy, and psychosocial development. Loma Vista Farm is a five acre, real, working farm. There are 3 horses, 3 sheep, 1 alpaca, 3 pigs, 2 cows, 8 rabbits, 8 goats, and over 100 chickens, ducks, geese, turkeys, and guineas. There is over an acre in vegetable, herb, native, and orchard plants and a pond. The greenhouse is 30'x120' and we have an indoor classroom with a kitchen and two bathrooms. The Farm is adjacent to the Loma Vista School but is also open to the public and is a field trip site for 18,000 visitors per year.

This grant will make it possible for city kids, many of which are low-income, to touch worms, smell lemon verbena, taste egg flower soup, hear cows moo, and see the beauty of real life on a farm in their own community.

This program is supported by Friends of Loma Vista Farm.