School garden seeks local involvement

A school garden is taking shape outside the current soccer field fence at Valemount Secondary School, and principal Dan Kenkel hopes, with some community support, there will be a good harvest ready in September.

Kenkel says a couple of schools in Canada are doing school gardens or orchards.

“It’s just a way of connecting kids to the environment, getting their hands dirty.”

He says he thought the idea would fit with the project-based learning model the school is trying to move toward, and it makes use of a piece of land that is currently not of much use.