Roy High School

"Why does my mom buy that stuff for me if it's not healthy?"

"My dad says we don't need that stuff (fruits and vegetables)."

These are actual comments from students I face everyday in my Foods and Nutrition courses. Other students don't know where their next meal is coming from. Parents and children are facing a nutritional crisis.

The goal of our garden is to increase student awareness of:
* where food comes from
* how to grow food
* how growing healthy food can be an occupation
* how to prepare healthy meals from foods grown in gardens
* how to market garden produce

The school garden would be a new "hands-on" learning opportunity for our school. We have recently had a "state-of-the-art" greenhouse constructed on school grounds that currently sits empty. The garden would provide a valuable cross-curricular learning opportunity for students enrolled in Foods, Nutrition, Greenhouse and Marketing classes.