Kokhanok School

The goal of the Kokhanok school garden is to create a teaching tool that is both relevant to the kids of an isolated village and that has the power to dramatically increase the quality of life by introducing and supplying fresh vegetables to the community. Village schools struggle to keep kids engaged with a learning system that bases its portrait of society on events, places, and things that have never been experienced by the people of the community. This in combination with a community that predominantly depends on subsistence activities of hunting and fishing creates a gulf between ideology and daily life. The garden will tie active village life with state and federal learning objectives. By creating a garden the Kokhanok school aligns itself with the Alaska Food Policy Council goals by increasing the availability and affordability of produce and impacting the communities ability to eat healthy and to be food secure.

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