WOODLAND HILLS (CBSLA.com) — Pierce School’s Farm Middle is a inexperienced oasis in Woodland Hills’ panorama of workplace parks and towers. Nevertheless it won't be there for much longer.
The farm middle, recognized for its Halloween Harvest Pageant and corn maze, is being shut down Dec. 26 after 10 years of offering recent fruit and greens to the group.
The Pierce School Farm Middle, which occupies 34 acres on the northeast a part of the campus, has been operated by Robert and Cathy McBroom. Robert McBroom says the school envisioned a group service agricultural program, and it believes it has completed that mission.
“It’s actually why you’ve seen one thing in 10 years that’s gone from a fallow area to a simply nice operation,” McBroom stated.
The farm middle has employed scores of Pierce School college students through the years in part-time, full-time and seasonal jobs. As of Dec. 26, they'll all be unemployed.
“And you already know what, I feel that’s what hurts greater than anything,” McBroom stated.
There's an online petition circulating to save lots of the farm, but when that doesn’t work, McBroom says, they may attempt to arrange farm once more close by, however that would take a minimum of two years.
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