YODER — The Yoder Charter School chicken barbecue on Saturday raised over $4,000 towards future projects and supplies for YCS students education.
The school is hoping to raise meat chickens again next year and the kids also will be raising a flock of egg laying chicks and selling eggs and collecting those.
Students are hoping to hatch them from fertilized eggs and watch them all the way through next school year through laying eggs as well as doing lots of the research and the background knowledge that comes with that.
One of the classes is working on planting a native garden, with a program through the Dyck Arboretum in Hesston.
The school also hopes to begin composting waste here at school, talking about agriculture, as well as sustainability and environmental impact of all their projects.
There are still a few spots available in each of the Kindergarten through 8th grade classrooms for next year’s enrollment. Contact the school if you’d like to enroll your child.