St. Joseph Catholic School

Last year, the 6th grade class began a garden project in response to a unit on Environmental Science. This year, with help of the school and private donations, our (now 7th grade) class has a dedicated garden spot and a compost machine. The 7th grade students went to all of the other grades (pre-k to 8th) and presented information on what could and could not be composted and set up buckets around the lunch ramadas to be collected everyday and added to our compost machine. We have gone out and tilled the area and have some donated seeds. The students want to donate the food to the St. Vincent de Paul food bank located in our parish as well as hold Farmer's Markets to raise money to sustain the costs of replacing seeds, plants and equipment as necessary.