How-To Plans for Building an Ag Project for Your School:

Building a Three Section Compost Bin (click for pdf)

Caring for soil is more important than the garden itself! Build this compost bin with students and parents and start building soil structure, health, and nutrition for your plants. The total cost of the project, excluding scrap lumber for the slats, is about $100. Start composting this week and have rich topsoil and humus to add to your garden in as little as six weeks!


Leopold Education Project (LEP) is now a MAEF professional development opportunity for middle through post-secondary students. This nationally acclaimed environmental and agriculture literacy curriculum is based upon Leopold's A Sand County Almanac and incorporates a multi-disciplinary approach to teaching conservation and ecological systems thinking.


Formal classroom teachers and off-site EE teachers, as well as farm-based educators may organize a workshop for their site by contacting Peggy at peppig@maefonline.com. This one-day professional development experience includes a sampling of the LEP curriculum activities, an educator's curriculum manual and a copy of A Sand County Almanac. Each workshop will accomodate up to 20 participants, with a minimum of 8. Call or email for materials and facilitator fee!


Field Day Events are offered to all middle and high school teachers interested in specific topics. Check here for annoucements regarding Greenhouses, Livestock, Nature Study, School Farms and Farm to School, Pollinator Science and Landscape Ecology and much more!


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