WHAT: A celebration of the opening of the West Philadelphia High School Garden, a program of the Agatston Urban Nutrition Initiative at the University of Pennsylvania’s Netter Center for Community Partnerships

WHO: AUNI students will conduct tours of the new garden, which includes native plants, vegetables, herbs, fruit trees and the Lea Elementary School’s “taco salad bed.” Student chefs will serve a specially prepared light lunch that illustrates the healthy-eating lessons they have learned.
Several students will discuss the following themes they focused on this summer: Eat a Rainbow, Eat Whole Grains and Reading Food Labels.

WHERE: West Philadelphia High School, 47th and Walnut streets

WHEN: 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., Wednesday, Aug. 5

DETAILS: AUNI builds and maintains school gardens to increase school children’s familiarity with healthy foods and as a link to their science curriculum. Several of the gardens help to increase access to healthy foods through connections with local farmers markets.

Additional information is available by calling Allison Ostertag at 504-710-5406.