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MIDLAND'S GARDEN
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One of Midland's most distinguishing features is our eight-acre organic farm. Students work with and learn from Ben Munger '79, and Jesus Zepeda Perez. The garden is farmed organically, and with the students helping in planting, cultivating, and harvesting, the school kitchen is kept in a steady supply of dried and fresh vegetables and fruit. Grass-fed beef cattle are raised in the garden and there is an on-going project to grow native shrubs, trees, and grasses for use in campus restoration and landscaping projects. Students may choose garden as one of their sports, or can have morning lettuce harvester as their job. For bigger jobs, the entire school will head out to put a new batch of strawberry plants into the soil or collect acorns and native grass seed. Please read "Notes from the Garden," a report on the state of the farm and garden by Ranch Manager Ben Munger. Jeff Goddard has compiled a list of plants, native and non-native, on Midland's property. Click here to see the list, and feel free to hike the property in search of the plants.
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