A Portrait of Rancho Cielo's Drummond Culinary Academy

Produced by Boots Road Group for Rancho Cielo Youth Campus. Directed by Spencer Critchley, photographs by Randy Tunnell. This video debuted at Rancho Cielo's annual Culinary Roundup event at the Monterey Plaza Hotel on Jan 23, 2011.

"Rancho Cielo Drummond Culinary Academy is dedicated to providing at-risk youth with an opportunity to gain classroom training, work experience and transferrable skills that help them become employable in the culinary and hospitality industry.

"Rancho Cielo is a 100-acre ranch in the foothills of Salinas, with an educational component, vocational training, and recreation for at-risk youth and first-time youth offenders giving them an opportunity to redirect their lives. Although our first students arrived on campus in 2004, the program has already demonstrated success, as measured by a 73% recidivism reduction rate."

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• rancho cielo
• drummond culinary academy
• salinas
• at risk youth
• probation
• silver star
• john phillips