Paint Rock Valley High School

We are a small, rural school with 100 students preschool through 12th grade. Our garden is a component of a larger project to develop an agriculture and agribusiness curricula with aquaponics and integrate these with a home economics curriculum. We hope that this will provide our students with viable alternatives to or to augment row crops and teach them to grow, prepare and eat healthy, locally-grown food. We plan to build greenhouses for the garden and fish tanks so that the programs can proceed throughout the year. The produce from the program will be used in our home economics kitchen and in the school cafeteria and in our existing food bank program for seniors in the community. We hope that sales of the surplus produce and activities such as seed-starting will financially sustain the program in the future and provide employment for our students.