🌱 Frisco ISD Kids Are Literally Growing Their Own Lunch

Two new restaurants opened this week and both have my attention.

Pepper Lunch opened Friday at 9180 Warren Parkway. The concept: Japanese fast-casual teppanyaki where your food arrives on a 500-degree iron plate and you finish cooking it yourself at the table.

The menu includes pepper rice, steaks, teriyaki, curry, seafood, and vegetarian options. This is their first Texas location, part of a five-location franchise deal. Frisco's getting in early.

Will I bring a 2-year-old near a 500-degree plate? Absolutely not. But Emily and I are filing this under date night.

Little Woodrow's also opened March 23 at 8320 State Hwy. 121 in Stonebriar Centre. This Houston-based sports bar is their 24th location and second in DFW. The setup:

Oh, and starting in May: Turtle Racing on Thursday nights. The turtles are named Turtle Swift and Timothée Shellamet. I cannot explain why this brings me so much joy.

If you haven't noticed, it is absolutely beautiful outside right now. Texas gives you about six weeks of perfect patio weather before it becomes a public health hazard to eat outside. The clock is running.

Local Profile put together a solid roundup of the best patios in Collin County, and a few Frisco spots worth bookmarking:

Hat Creek also made the list with their outdoor playground, which, as a dad of two toddlers, gets automatic bonus points.

We're doing a patio dinner this week. I don't know which one yet but I'm accepting nominations from the group.

This one genuinely made me smile.

At Centennial High School, students are running a hydroponic garden inside the old campus coffee shop, right next to the cafeteria. They grow romaine lettuce, harvest it, and send it to the lunch line the same day.

400+ heads of lettuce harvested so far this school year.

Lebanon Trail High School has a similar setup.

Two student volunteers, Andrew and Rebecca, run the day-to-day operation. Rebecca put it simply:

"I like knowing that what we're growing actually goes to other students. It makes it feel like we're doing something small that still makes a difference."

Environmental Programs facilitator Seth Williams added: "This is about more than growing lettuce. When students are part of the process, those lessons really stick."

My kids are a long way from high school. But this is exactly why I'm glad we landed in Frisco ISD territory.

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