Taylor Perez says she learned more about her passions while tending beehives, goats and fruit trees at her central Alberta high school than sitting through lessons in a classroom.
Ms. Perez and her classmates are buzzing with excitement after their school’s student-led beekeeping program, goat farm, fruit orchard, tropical greenhouse and other environmental projects were recognized in a global sustainability contest among 10 other schools. “They are going to be our community leaders – maybe even our politicians – and for them to know what the heartbeat of their generation is [is] extremely important.”
“She took that to heart and a year later she came back and told me that she wanted to take the school off the grid.” Since then, 32 new solar panels have been installed, and they produce up to 4 per cent of the school’s electricity. After the fire, students also wanted to clean the air in their classrooms so they filled some with spider plants, including one in the teachers’ lounge.
The school also works with a local farm and raises baby goats inside a solar-powered barn that was built with recycled material.“We take the excrement from the goats and the hay and use it as mulch and fertilizers for our garden. The goats also chew up the grass and allow us not to have to use lawn mowers and tractors.”
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