Grayson County High School

The goal of the garden project is to not only connect our students with real life hands-on learning, but also to provide our cafeteria and community with fresh vegetables grown by our own students. Our goal is to use the garden as a classroom where students can connect to real world learning and reap the benefits of hard work and cooperation. We hope that the garden will integrate with other subjects taught at our school such as Math, Science, English, and Art and that students will gain knowledge that will not only help them academically but in life in general.

Our county has been designated as a USDA Food Dessert. This means that it has been determined that residents have limited access to affordable and nutritious foods and also that there is a high proportion of low income residents. In addition, we have a childhood obesity rate of 28%; the highest in the commonwealth. One major goal of our garden is to help improve our status in these areas.

This program is supported by .