Eastern Middle/High School

Eastern Local Schools will use this grant to enrich the lives of our students in many ways.The most important thing this grant will do is teach our students how they can grow food to assist in feeding their families and possibly learn to generate income as Pike County has a farmers’ market and produce auction. The grant will also be used to provide fresh vegetables for the students of our district. At each harvest we will be able to disperse the vegetables to students and families who need and desire them. The grant will provide hands on application to the many skills that students are being
taught in the vocational agriculture courses we offer in grades seven through twelve. Eastern is a rural school district that is in Pike County, Ohio, which has the third highest unemployment rate in the state as of September 2014. Eastern Local Schools currently has a 90% percent free and reduced lunch population. The population in our school district could benefit greatly from this opportunity.