Our high school is full of motivated, generous, and hard-working students. Living in a state with a high percentage of obesity and poverty, our students are ready to change those numbers by educating the community about healthy eating while promoting community gardens and encouraging physical activity.
While striving to maintain good stewardship of the land, our students will focus on the conservation of resources and protecting the environment by making decisions that revolve around sustainability within our community.
Our students are dedicated to promoting agriculture in the classroom while encouraging others to make positive changes in the way we all look at food and nutrition.
My Project
Compost enriches soil by helping retain moisture and suppress plant diseases and pests. It also reduces the need for chemical fertilizers and encourages the production of beneficial bacteria and fungi that break down organic matter to create humus, a rich nutrient-filled material.
Composting is an excellent way to teach students about the life cycle: life, death, decay, and re-birth.
Students will collect compostable material from our cooking labs and cafeteria kitchen. This composter can be set up to compost the full 65 gallons at a time or to be split into 2 composters allowing for compost to be made while the other side is being loaded with fresh compost material, keeping a constant flow of compost being made .
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