Near North District School Board students took time during their summer vacation to take part in a food related project.

Sean Madigan is a teacher at West Ferris Secondary School.

He says the students were in the inter disciplinary studies course and they were learning about the food charter.

He says the students learned about the Gathering Place, worked with the Heritage Gardeners and grew food in their own garden at the school.

He says the students learned where food comes from.

“How to grow it in a way that is the least impactful on the environment and that is in the organic growing cycle. They also got to compare what they learned about the global food system and how that works.”

He says they also learned about how food gets to the grocery shelves

“How it’s accessed by people. Having the experience of growing food or working at growing food at The Gathering Place and seeing it go to needy in the community. It hits home.”
Madigan says there’s a lot of food education at West Ferris. It’s important for students to know how the food system works and they learned potential job work through food in the future.