Cecile and I took our two-year old granddaughter Emmy to the two-acre Westmont Agricultural Farm, not too far from our home, and across from Westmont High School in Campbell. We had taken her big sister Lyla here once before. More than 200 Westmont students study agriculture, grow greenhouse plants and raise animals, as part of the last Future Farmers of America (FFA) in Silicon Valley. We did a self tour, first visiting the cows that seemed happy to see us. Emmy got to pet one. We then visited the chickens, pigs, and goats. I saw a young teenager volunteer open a door that I knew was filled with caged rabbits, and asked if Emmy could get to pet one of them. She happily obliged. She took out a rabbit that happened to be her pet, named Cash. She told us her sister owned several of the other rabbits.
After our little outing we took Emmy to Effiie’s restaurant for her favorite Mickey Mouse pancakes. Cecile had a shrimp salad and I had a tuna sandwich on toasted wheat bread and fries. One of our waitresses took a liking to Emmy. One thing led to another and it turned out that her daughters went to Westmont High School and she was very familiar with the school’s agricultural sciences program and the farm. She said she always knew where her daughters were and it was a very wholesome program overall.
