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Hughson High School Polyculture

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Due to the different germination processes, our school garden uses monoculture. Monoculture is when the land is used to produce a single crop. Given our circumstances, our monoculture garden would make it difficult to use our resources to stock our cafeteria with fresh produce. If our school garden advisors were willing to use polyculture, then this task would become much easier. Polyculture is when a mixed variety of foods are grown together. By using the crops studied above one would plant the warm season crops together and the cool season plants together. This means since broccoli and tomatoes both need at least eight hours of sunlight and warmer temperatures, one would plant these two crops together on the same piece of land. Spinach and lettuce would be planted together on the same piece of land as well since both crops need similar conditions to germinate. Polyculture would be a huge step in the right direction for stocking Hughson High School’s cafeteria with fresh, healthy, and sustainable produce.

Being that our campus farm would not be able to immediately produce all the crops we need, we would have to have …show more content…

Joanna Jordan, Hughson High School’s Food Service Leader, stated “I know of many schools who have a farm to school initiative and they are very successful. Bringing a campus farm to Hughson High School would strongly benefit us in the future. However, there are many ‘red tapes’ we must cross and complete in order to also have a successful campus farm. But I am sure it is not an impossible task and we could make this happen.” In terms of ‘red tapes’, Joanna Jordan meant many regulations and rules must be passed and accomplished before Hughson High School is able to start a campus farm. Certainly, with the right support from many people, Hughson High School will be on its way to creating a campus farm in no

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