Westtown's student worked mini-farm is a two acre small farm
where students learn about sustainable agriculture, doing hands-
on work building soil and planting organically for harvest for
our kitchen and community. The mini-farm offers students the
chance to get down and dirty with the earth, learn about
themselves and their role in the food web, and grow vegetables
to be eaten by all members of the Westtown community. The mini-
farm hosts a rammed earth and tire recessed open air classroom,
a pizza oven made of cob, and a 96 foot high tunnel—all tools in
teaching earth literacy to high school students—the fundamental
connection of humans with the earth and with their food, and the
attendant environmental, scientific and social issues related to
food production and access. Students connect with the farm in
four ways: • Students can choose to be part of daily activities
on the farm in fall and spring. This afternoon co-curricular is
where students learn and work most intensively—following their
food from seed t