Quilcene School Gardens

This extensive Farm to Fork program began in 2009 as a way to introduce fresh food to students through the lunch program, gardens, and cooking classes. Today they grow and buy local as much as possible.

GARDENS

Garden Coordinator: Justin Lake   

• Food or Production Gardens
• Learning Garden (grow, taste, cultivate)
• Orchard
• Greenhouse
• Permaculture or Food Forest
• Perennials
• Rain Garden
• Hydroponics for lettuce
• Specialty Gardens - Native, Mediterranean, Colonial

CULINARY

School Lunches 

Food Services Director: Jennifer Tirao -  jtirao@qfcd48.org 

• Fresh whole foods
• Salad Bar
• Soup Bar

ENTERPRISE

• 2022 Culinary Art Classes Instructor: Jennifer Tirao
  
• Program includes getting instruction and cooking four days a week, breakfast and Lunch (prep, cook, manage…) Students are required to get food handlers card from Jefferson County and some participate in FCCLA (Family, Career and Community Leaders of America) [https://wa-fccla.org]. Other students have taken CPR courses as part of the program.

Funding Sources

• Jefferson County Farm to School Coalition
• Count Me In for Quilcene
• Part of School Budget
• Fundraising through selling donated plants from their farmstand.
• Other Donations from: Pacific Coast Seafoods Company, Midori Farms, Taylor Shellfish Hatchery

Would you like to help the program? Go here. https://jccwp.org/take-action

360-765-3363x209 Cafeteria

294715 US Hwy 101, PO box 40 Quilcene WA 98376

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