Field to Fork program announces 15 schools to grow veggies

Students from 15 Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools will be growing vegetables in the classroom this spring.

Third-graders from Huntingtowne Farms Elementary make
pizzas at a Fuel Pizza location with their own ingredients in Dec. 2012. 

Through the "Field to Fork" program (partners: Fuel Pizza Cafe, Mecklenburg Co. Health Department, Mecklenburg Co. Fruit & Vegetable Coalition, CMS and LandSculptors, LLC), kids will learn about nutrition and grow garden vegetables at their school. 

They'll pick their produce after several weeks and take it to a Fuel Pizza location, where their ingredients will be chopped up. Then the students will make (and eat!) vegetable-laden pizzas of their own creation.

The elementary schools participating this spring:

Albemarle Road 

Bain

Berryhill

Blythe

Collinswood Language Academy

Idlewild

J.V. Washam

Lake Wylie

Lebanon

Newell

Selwyn

Statesville Road

Whitewater Academy

Windsor Park

Winget Park