Lower School Participates in Real Food Farms Project

Real Food Farm plants and distributes vegetables, fruits, and herbs to address the community’s access issues and to promote farming as a serious future for the city. It is located on six acres of Clifton Park in NE Baltimore and uses hoop houses and sustainable farming methods.
Calvert has partnered with Constellation Energy and Real Food Farm to bring fresh vegetables to inner city families. For three Mondays in a row, the entire Lower School under the leadership of Mrs. Armstrong and parent, Molly Shattuck, will plant seedlings in trays at Calvert. They will be transported to a hoop house in Clifton Park, where they will grow in a green house. Participating Middle School groups will then participate in the remaining three stages: planting the vegetables into the ground, harvesting them, and helping farm staff to sell them at a farm stand at one of the neighborhood sites.