New Garden at Smolak Farms to Assist Education

Some of Boston's finest chefs will soon be cultivating students' culinary talents with a bit of North Andover.

Throughout this summer and fall, is growing a new garden at that will supply fresh produce such as vegetables and herbs to the Boston Center for Adult Education for their culinary and education program.

BCAE Grows Project has been a year in the making, developed in partnership with Smolak Farms and the Boston Center for Adult Education to supply the culinary program at the BCAE with their produce and to build programming around the use of local products and sustainability.

Smolak Farms recently hosted BCAE Director Susan Brown and Massachusetts Department of Agricultural Resources Commissioner Scott Soares to view the new garden.

"We're delighted that we were able to partner with Smolak Farms who not only gave us a home for this project, but have really helped shepherd us in the process," Brown said. "Sourcing our own products and creating programming around this initiative is something we're really proud of. I don't know that there is another institution in our educational space anywhere else in the country doing this."

Smolak Farms is more than 100 acres and offers various fruits and vegetables for picking as well as a bakery and a petting zoo.