You might miss it when you’re driving by, but there’s a 1.75-acre farm wedged between the football field and active Metro and freight train tracks at the back of the Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet High School campus in Glassell Park.
A herd of Irish Dexter cows, a passel of New Zealand Kunekune pigs, Babydoll Southdown sheep and assorted feathered fowl are just part of the menagerie living among fruit trees, vegetable gardens and lush native plants along a swale to capture rainwater.
“Agriculture can reset natural ecosystems and become part of the solution to climate change,” said Reies Flores, the agriculture educator at Sotomayor’s Career and Technical Education (CTE) program. The agriscience program is separate from the rest of the academic curriculum.
