Fonda-Fultonville Central school

The goal of our school garden club is to create a sustainable vegetable and herb garden. We are going to increase the size of our current very small garden. A grant to provide a greenhouse would enable us to start our own seeds and allow us to produce extra plants which we could plant and also sell as a fundraiser to help maintain the costs to sustain our garden.The food produced in the garden will be used by the cafeteria staff for the school lunch program. We would like to provide fresh salad vegetables 3 times weekly on a monthly basis throughout the growing season. Any surplus produce would be donated to our local food pantry, which promotes the lesson of sharing with the less fortunate in our community. As a rural school district,we are hoping to implement a Future-Farmers of America program into the High School curriculum for agricultural career- bound students.With such interest being shown by the current Middle School students, we would like this to become a reality next year.