Too many children think French fries count as a serving of vegetables, and that tomato sauce comes out of a can, or worse, is squeezed from a bottle.
Children and parents now have the chance to see how food moves "from the farm to your fork" at the Great Park Farm & Food Lab, which officially opened on Saturday in Irvine, according to a park news release.
The Farm & Food Lab features 12 hands-on gardens with themes such as a "pizza and spaghetti," connecting herbs and children's favorite pie toppings, a "sensory" garden full of fragrant flowers and textured shrubs and other vegetable and flowering motifs.
"The Farm [and] Food Lab has become an instantly popular feature here, and is emblematic of our commitment to permanent agriculture in this growing metropolitan park," said Larry Agran, chairman of the Orange County Great Park Corp. "It's unusual that a metropolitan park would consider agriculture to be a feature, but the popularity of the Farm [and] Food Lab proves to us that people are interested in learning about the origins of the food they eat every day.
