1,000's of children in Pasco go home every day hungry. Some schools have as many as 80%-90% of their students on free or reduced lunch. We can educate our children on how to take care of the Earth and take care of people by growing a garden. If enough volume is produced excess could be sold locally to help the beleaguered school budgets. Projects on how to cook, how to count, how to budget your time and manage a project. How science works and math is involved in nature or how ecology and biology work . So much learning can occur in a garden. The possibilities of learning self reliance are endless. As much as we need education on using technology that the school board spends millions of dollars on, we also need education on taking care of the Earth and taking care of People.

Growing food is part of being human, for millions of years we've been growing food yet only in the past 50-100 years we've sent our food 1,000s of miles away from where we live. By learning again how to take care of our body through locally grown chemical free food we can help the community learn a lost art that could revive our local economy. Growing food is a great rewarding job that can be done with just a few hours of work and some land anywhere can be made fertile using science and technology.

Lets work at setting up hundreds of gardens at our schools and planting thousands of fruit trees. We can teach the kids a skill that they can go home with and teach their parents. Home gardens can be encouraged and a victory garden movement re-inspired here in Pasco County.   We have a weak job market, well everyone can find a plot of land and make their own job by taking care of the land while taking care of people. Starting a garden will transform the local economy and encourage healthy eating and exercise lowering the health costs of the county as well.  

Create a garden project where growing food is the mission at each school. Establish small plots then expand to larger fields when the curiculum is worked out.  Set a couple year goal of acheiving a percentage fo the food grown during school year being used in the school cafetarias.

Engage the children's senses by taking them outside a few hours a week and have them partipate in the garden.

Set-up Activites and interweave Science, Math, Writing curiculums into the gardening experiance.

Help encourage more local food to be grown by showing parents how they can start gardens at their homes.

Create entrepeneurship projects to show how growing food can be a business with even a small peice of land.

Teach children basic home economics such as how to cook, how to can, and how to preserve foods long term.

Teach children how to grow soil as well as the importance of the ecology food web in its relation to creation of soil.

Teach children to know several varietes of vegetables and how to take raise them in Florida.