Farm Center’s decade milestone

The Farm Center always cuts an environmental message into the corn maze during the Oct. festivities, but this year, the message simply reads “Pierce Farm 10 Years”.

The Pierce College Farm Center turned 10 years old this harvest season.

In 2005, the Farm Center hosted its first Halloween Harvest Festival. Ten years later, the farm is celebrating its anniversary by doing what it has always done – providing produce, fun, and education to the students and community.

Farm Center director Robert McBroom said the farm has come a long way since 2005, when it was just a piece of fallow land.

“It started with just selling pumpkins,” McBroom said. “It grew into a farm and developed into a community asset.”

McBroom has been in charge of the Farm Center since 2005, after previously running a Halloween show at a Boeing facility in Chatsworth.