Mexico Middle School

Our main goal is to provide fresh vegetables for our school, both to supplement our lunch program as well as classroom tastings. The second goal is to provide education about healthy eating, sustainable farming, and the value of home-grown food. A third goal is that students will benefit in personal/social ways: to reap the rewards of seeing a product from their own work, to learn to work together, and to give back to the community. Since we have not had a garden before now, we are in need of tools and materials to start our program from scratch. We plan to have a spring and fall garden planting along with annual soil building sections of the garden. In addition to our community partern, we have a number of community groups who are very interesting in supporting us, including the Master Gardeners organization from the Extension Office, a local greenhouse, and two agriculture supply stores. It is our hope that our high school FFA club will also partner with us.

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