Healthier food at summer camp

Posted By: Kelly Marston

Plantation Farm Camp was featured in a San Jose Mercury News article today.  Journalist, Lisa Fernandez's piece investigates the growing importance that the quality of food has for parents in selecting camp. 

"Summer camps for city kids can be amazing athletic playgrounds, where TVs are turned off and youngsters are thrust outside to play dodge ball, hike in the woods and swim every afternoon.

Some camps, though, end up counteracting all that great exercise with, as one Los Altos Hills mother puts it, endless streams of 'crappy cafeteria food.'

But with today's increased awareness on childhood obesity and the positive benefits of zero-transfat, organic diets, there is a strong network of parents opting for camps with a focus on healthful meals to combat the packaged-food mentality."

Raising and serving premiere quality food is an important part of the camp experience at Plantation and the article highlights some of the components of the delicious meals we eat at camp.