School and community engage youth in farming

If principal Kevin Van Lagen (or Mr. V.L. as the students at Altario School call him) misses a day, he’s liable to miss a lot.

“I wasn’t there one day, but the student leaders had a meeting and apparently ended up trading four lambs for six pigs – I came back the next day, and they said, ‘Hey, Mr. V.L., we’re getting pigs!’”

And indeed, that’s how decisions for the school farm typically go. “The students make a lot of the choices,” Van Lagen says.

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