Kennedy Alternative High School

The garden/greenhouse is used as outdoor/indoor classrooms for place-based experiential learning, with an emphasis on developing a model for learning entrepreneurial and vocational skills in sustainable agricultural with a newly-added aquaculture program and additional propagation space.

An aquaponic system is in current development to utilize a closed system for propagating starts to be used in our garden (and other gardens in the community) from fish waste, as well as raising Tilapia for harvest. Funds raised from the sale of organic vegetable starts and fish will be used to sustain our program, as well as provide a training venue for students and demo site for schools within our school district.

Expansion and upgrade of our greenhouse and native plant propagation areas will also be included in this grant to provide additional space, as well as provide supplies and equipment (repairs and irrigation), increasing yields and plant material availability for various riparian restoration and mitigation projects that our school contracts through a separate Conservation Corps program. This will provide additional revenue needed to sustain our Agriculture program.

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