Upholding Our GoalSacred Heart Goal Three: Schools of the Sacred Heart commit themselves to educate to a social awareness which impels to action.
Nadia Sadeghian Gonzalez 202-636-9304 [email protected]. |
Project Focus |
The farm and garden program at Sacred Heart Schools, Atherton will immerse students into our commercial/community agriculture curriculum for one week. During that time participants will perform various duties in our gardens, such as:
Although students will be quite busy tending to our farm, we will also all spend large chunks of time preparing harvested produce for our customers. This crucial aspect of the program will involve students in delivering food for our CSA program, our campus farm and garden markets, our school summer campus, the cafeteria for the RSCJ Oakwood Community, and a local chapter of the community justice organization, Food Not Bombs. We sell some of the products from our agriculture program and we give others away. Both distribution models are important as a good farm must earn money while building relationships. At our school farm it’s 50-50. |
Global Connection |
In addition to developing outdoor agricultural skills, participants in the program will have extensive discussions about the big questions and concepts:
Our network program concentrates most directly on the Sacred Heart injunction to teach respect for creation and prepare students to be stewards of the earth’s resources. As teachers in an activist-driven experiential program we will also appeal to latent forms of critical consciousness, encourage participants to reflect on society’s values and inspire students to be active, informed, and responsible citizens locally, nationally, and globally. |