Northome School

The school garden committee selected the following as the goals for our garden committee:
1. Provide our students with fun and interesting experiences that are relevant to the real world.
2. Improve student diets with local produce for healthier living.
3. Teach students how to produce their own food.
4. Teach students how to preserve and prepare their own food.
5. Meet Minnesota education standards in science, health, social studies, and math.
6. Demonstrate gardening and diet techniques for parents and the community.

We have secured a grant for the initial construction of our garden beds and this project should be just about finished at the end of October.

Our FFA chapter has donated materials to build a deer fence around the garden. The posts are in. The fence may have to wait until spring to be stretched.

What we need now is help with processing, preserving, and presenting the food to our students. This is what we are asking the Whole Kids Foundation to help us provide.