Malone students grow confidence

Malone students grow confidence

MALONE — At the Malone Central School District, middle schoolers are growing lettuce under LED lights, tending Swiss chard on an aeroponic tower, feeding bullhead fish in an aquaponic tank and planting apple trees on school grounds.

Malone students grow food and academic confidence through classroom partnership

At Malone Central School District, middle schoolers are growing lettuce under LED lights, tending Swiss chard on an aeroponic tower, feeding bullhead fish in an aquaponic tank and planting apple trees on school grounds. It’s all part of “Going Green,” an interdisciplinary initiative led by a seven-member teaching team called Team Innovate, in partnership with the Heart Network’s Creating Healthy Schools and Communities (CHSC) program.  Funded by…