Our kids are showing interest for Agriculture within the school system! What is The Ministry of Education, Culture, Youth & Sport plan to do about this?
This month was amazing with the Kids at Sister Magda Primary school..
Spaceless Gardens in collaboration with ECO St Maarten Agricultural Research & Development Foundation has Completed a basis learning curriculum powerpoint presentation that can be presented to any school toward implementing basis Agricultural Education.
Today’s classrooms are equipped with new state of the art Digi Boards which make learning much more fun and interactive … Beside the classroom, I believe that kids who also express themselves through arts, culture, nature and sports tend to perform and build better lifestyle habits. This is why I also believe that having a garden in the school yard tends to build a sense of responsibility, routine and dedication into our young men and women of tomorrow. Most of all allowing them to understand the importance of hard work and health eating habits. If we start to implement these habits into our children from a young age we ultimately allow them to become better decision makers and most of all understand the power of choice. Especially when it come to food consumption.
Video below: Understanding the soil !
Agriculture is the pillar of life, everyday we have to eat to provide the body with the essential minerals it may need so we can go through our daily routines, so eating also become a routine. Everything in nature is set in place to sustain mankind. EVER WONDER HOW THE COW GET SO BIG JUST BY EATING GRASS?. Which, would make you wonder what’s in that grass. Instead we make a choice to eat the cow, while the cow has its purpose, and that was never for mans consumption but for the carnivore animals of nature. Humans are herbivores and our bodies are built for herbs, grains, fruits and veggies, no meats. The same way nature provides for every specie, she also provides for us. But, are we making the right choices? Today we as people consume from an average of about 35 species of edible plant types. Imagine that is all we know or have been thought or exposed to, where by nature has over 80,000+ edible plant species. Most of the time we just cut them down as weeds in our back yard or disregard trying new things we don’t know or not familiar with. This is why the continuous awareness and education building in the field of agri-culture will remain top priority for me on this life journey.
The curriculum presentation is geared toward stimulating engagement in and out of the classroom by helping kids to understand the importance of nature and the positive and negative roles we as human play within todays world. By understanding the damage that is caused by mankind to the earth, only then can we start to counter act the centuries of destruction caused. Only ones left that I believe can champion this now, is the children of tomorrow.
It’s time for Agriculture in the Classroom. Let’s teach our children the value of culture, healthy lifestyle, sustainability, self reliance and resilience before it’s to late. Allow them to understand this this can also be a great future entrepreneurship opportunity in the future swell. We tend to believe that becoming a lawyer or a doctors may be the most important career choices. But, along the journey we must also ask, if doctors are lawyer don’t eat as well? lol.
The Curriculum \ Presentation covers the important basics such as:
The impact on Climate Change, Seed Germination, Understanding the Soil, Parts of the Plant and Plant Care and Maintenance.
Spaceless Gardens and ECO SXM also focuses on leadership and capacity building amongst older student groups that will help to keep the garden at the school up to date and keep the younger ones up to speed as how to follow their trend.
I would like to thank Ms Vonk and Ms Boasman of the Sister Magda Primary school for taking this opportunity and presenting it to the kids. The Kids at the school have been very joyful and loves to see, take care of and be a part of the interactive agricultural sessions provided at the school.
”We must remember that no one is promised tomorrow. So once we’re in the right place, at the right time, to do the right thing, then it must mean that we are actually chosen to make a difference Today.” – Wyatte President ECO SXM
Interested in Becoming a member of ECO St Maarten Agricultural Research and Development Foundation in 2019 or perhaps registering your school for this Agricultural Project Session ?
Contact +1721 553-6300 or added this network number to your WhatsApp +1721 524-4733 for more information.
Mr Wyatte Spaceless Gardens | ECO St Maarten Agriculture Agricultural Research and Development Foundation
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