Oskaloosa Middle School

Our goal is to implement a sustainability program within the middle school's consumer sciences program to teach our young people about growing their own foods, how to process the foods, and to incorporate nutrition into their daily lives. We have all heard about the growing rate of childhood obesity and we want to aid in the efforts to put an end to this epidemic. The teacher and volunteers working with this program will be able to become more educated in this area through grant funding and we will be able to share our knowledge in hopes to change the lives of our young students. The lessons we will teach can be brought home and shared and we hope that the students' families will become involved in a more healthy lifestyle because of the education they have received.