Loma Vista Farmonce a weed-infested patch of hard clay dirt-is today a five-acre site with livestock, poultry, rabbits, waterfowl, a one-acre vegetable garden, a hydroponic greenhouse, barns and a classroom. Seventeen years ago Loma Vista teachers and students,-with the assistance of the Solano County 4-H leader-began to till the dirt, haul in the manure, and obtain the seed. Today, recycling and conservation are an integral part of the farm. Monitors from Loma Vista school take all the leftovers from lunch down to the farm and sort out the aluminum, tin, glass and food materials, the latter to be used as farm compost. At left, children learn characteristics of Aracana chickens in an educational "scavenger hunt."
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