Roaring Fork High School

Goals: teach youth how to grow food, prepare it, eat well & carry this knowledge home to their families to improve health; create a model project environmental for our high altitude region to grow food year round with a low carbon footprint; provide food to high school lunch program; & create a collaborative, hands-on education model to spread this education to all ages. In 2013 the college will use our orchard to teach Sustainable Agriculture and create a forest garden permaculture model. The grant will allow us to build an outdoor garden food washing station to clean what we take into the school kitchen & prepare to sell. It will finance several start-up micro-enterprises being developed by students to make the garden program self sustaining: making compost tea to use and sell, growing, herbs, salad greens, edible and decorative flowers for sale to restaurants. We need money for air pumps, a tank, food scales, & packaging & marketing materials to grow sustainable businesses.

This program is supported by Fat City Farmers.