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HMSHost sponsored the Learning Garden in conjunction with participating in the second annual Restaurant High Conference, also held at Hollywood High School |
USA. Restaurateur HMSHost has donated an outdoor classroom to a US high school as part of a project to educate students about real food.
The company has partnered with non-profit organisation The Kitchen Community, who constructed the 1,000sq ft Learning Garden classroom at Hollywood High School. Organic fruits and vegetables will be grown and the space is designed to inspire spontaneous play by children and to serve as an attractive hands-on teaching tool for educators. The garden will also be open to the wider community.
The project forms the latest part of HMSHost’s corporate social responsibility strategy, with another recent example being a recycling initiative at Amsterdam Schiphol Airport in which staff shirts are being made from recycled PET bottles .
HMSHost Executive Vice President Paul Mamalian said: “HMSHost’s involvement was a natural fit because educating people of all ages about the importance of healthy eating is a value that HMSHost recognises is important for future generations to learn.
“This garden will encourage teamwork and serve as an interactive extension of the classroom to empower young people in the community to make healthier food choices by understanding where food comes from. Students at Hollywood High School will benefit from this Learning Garden for years to come.”
The vegetables and herbs grown will ultimately be harvested and made available to the school cafeteria and students to take home to their families. The Learning Garden also features large boulders for sitting, art poles at the entrance, and a mural painted by Hollywood High art students that decorates the building hugging the space.
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The vegetables and herbs grown will be harvested and used at the school cafeteria |
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A ribbon-cutting ceremony was held earlier in October |
