Gulf Islands Secondary School
Program Type:
School Cafeterias, Kitchen Classrooms, Garden Classrooms
Grade Level/Age Group:
High School
Number of Individuals Program Serves:
1,000
Year Founded:
2014
About the Program:
Main Goals: To provide farm to table education and experience to our culinary arts students at Gulf Islands Secondary School. To provide fresh, locally grown food for our school cafeteria. Other Goals: To provide a gardening education centre to be used by other departments within the school and Salt Spring Elementary School and Salt Spring Island Middle School (both within 500m of GISS) and to the community at large. To provide a summer garden education centre for the community and summer employment for an adult supervisor and a small number of high school students.