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Altoona horticulture class

Students building a "Key hole garden"
Students working in the fall garden
Students laying out raised garden for this spring
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School Address: 
20704 US HWY 75
Buffalo, KS 66717
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Contact Name: 
robert pearce
Email
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Phone: 
(620) 537-7711
Education level or type: 
High School
Education level (Other): 
5-12 grads
School Name: 
Altoona Midway High/Middle School
School District Name and Number: 
Altoona Midway schools USD387
How are you incorporating your environmental projects into your school's curriculum?: 
We have a horticulture class plus Vo Ag that uses environmental projects. We do use some of Ag in the class room. The 2017/2018 school year we are planning: 1) enlarging the worm farm to about 18 square feet, 2) making 10 4 X 8 raised garden, 3) Starting a butterfly garden 4 X 8, 4) getting a 26 X 28 x 12 greenhouse, 5) starting a 5' radius Key-hole garden. We will be collection all paper and cardboard for the worm farm. using all grass, leaves and veggies for the center of the Key-hole garden. We will have a fall garden starting in Sept.
Accomplishments: 
We have just started a raised fall garden. We are landscaping the school adding shade trees at the elementary. and high school. The chrysanthemum we planted last year are blooming now. We also installed a wind generator to have electric power for a pond to grow fish.