There’s something special in Surf City.
Tucked away in the middle of a housing tract in northern Huntington Beach is Golden View Elementary School. The TK-5th grade campus in the Ocean View School District offers something you might not expect at an elementary school in Orange County – a 2.5-acre farm complete with goats, pigs, sheep, chickens, turkeys, geese, and a tortoise. It also has a vegetable and fruit garden and fruit trees.
“It’s just a little hidden gem,” Principal Venus Moeller said in a recent phone interview. “You feel like you’re in a different world when you’re out [on the farm].”
Golden View students spend a lot of time learning outdoors through the school’s environmental science program, which launched in 2018. Each week, students have two lessons outside, according to Moeller, who is in her first year as principal at the campus…