Learning Farm

Prairie Crossing Charter School partners with the Prairie Crossing Learning Farm to provide farm-based education to all of our students, grades K-8. This hands-on, outdoor education incorporates the charter school’s approach to constructivist and integrated learning. While our students work on the Farm, they simultaneously learn about the history and economics of agriculture, mathematics concepts through the measurement of plants and compost materials, and earth science through  the study of soil quality and the transformation of energy in living things. PCCS students strengthen their connections to the natural world and enhance their understanding of sustainability and healthy eating/living.

Through their work at the Learning Farm, our students learn how to:

• Plant and grow crops organically.

• Harvest plants by hand as our ancestors have throughout history.

• Prepare harvested grains, fruit, vegetable, and legumes for consumption.

• Compost organic material to increase soil workability and water holding capacity, minimize wind and water erosion, moderate soil  temperature, and create a stable ecosystem for beneficial insects,  birds, and other organisms.

• Practice sustainable agriculture to protect our land and farms.