This site contains information about Telstar Middle/High School’s service-learning project titled, “G.O.T. Farms?”. Students and teachers at TMS and THS have decided to collaborate on a project to improve the health of the citizens of SAD#44 by working toward the following goals:
1) Raise money for the improvement of the Telstar Greenhouse and work together with the community to make these improvements.
2) Work together to grow produce for use at the Telstar Complex – both in our greenhouse and in an outdoor school garden which we would like to plant in the Spring on school grounds.
3) Raise awareness of the importance of eating organically and locally and supporting local farms.
4) Raise awareness and develop a partnership between SAD #44 and the “Farm to School” program, which is a program that brings organic produce from local farms to school cafeterias.
5) Learn about and practice using renewable energy sources to power the greenhouse and extend the Maine growing season.
6) Work together with the kitchen staff to bring local foods to the Telstar table more often.
If you have any questions about this project, please let us know. We would like to involve as many SAD#44 staff and community members as possible. Please contact either one of us if you would like to be involved in this project in any way.
- Melissa Prescott - Telstar Middle School Visual Art Teacher – prescotm@sad44.org
- Sarah Savage – Telstar High School Special Education Teacher – savagesa@sad44.org
