We took our Youth Leaders on a little retreat this past week, to celebrate an amazing first year at Jefferson High School and to check out another CA city food system – San Francisco! We stopped by to say hello to LocalHarvest founder, Guillermo Payet, and visited with other youth leaders at FoodWhat?! in Santa Cruz. We spent a night at Pie Ranch then had breakfast at the Mission Pie Shop in San Francisco. Rainbow Grocery supplied us with our veggies for a stir fry we made later that night up in Point Reyes Station where we spent a night – tastings of local Cowgirl Creamery Cheese and Toby’s Coffee were a treat.
The kids couldn’t stop thanking us for the trip; highlights included a swim in the ocean & spotting a seal in Santa Cruz, strawberry picking, a sunset hike and sleeping under the stars at Pie Ranch, meeting other youth doing food systems work at FoodWhat?!, a first look at the Golden Gate bridge, and a night in Marin County, where almost all the food for purchase in local stores is sourced from local farms.
This slideshow requires JavaScript.
TAKE BETTER PICS OK WARREN
Ha ha. Oh our sassy youth leaders. Poor Warren didn’t even take the pictures,… I did Mr. Chopin!!!! So much for being a one-time professional photographer… meh!