De LaSalle High's Urban Farming Project
Looking to the right while going north on Troost Avenue, you will notice numerous colorful tires in between 37th and 38th street. The field used to be a Car wash but is now being transformed into a small farm by the students at the neighboring school.
They don't have a whole lot of money for the farm, but none is needed. They are being educated well to recycle and reuse materials in their surroundings as their tools.
They "don't buy anything, everything is found or donated" declares Theo Bunch as I questioned him on where he got these supplies. Theo Bunch, a volunteer and teacher at the school teaches the students at this school about a new way of farming and gardening. A method that is sustainable.
His students use tires rather than buy unnecessary plastic or clay pots for their tomatoes plants, sunflowers, and trees. They used rubble from an abandoned lot two blocks south for their barriers to protect their growing potatoes and other vegetables. Instead of buying fancy wooden stakes to support their plants, they used donated wire hangers. The Seeds for the plants were donated from Baker Creek Heirlooms an hour outside the city, a facility that sells non-GMO (genetically modified foods that are patented) seeds because they believe in non-privatized food.
De LaSalle is making an effort to "form a model for sustainable urban farming".
*all individual students are kept private*
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