Intergenerational Fun! Ishpeming High School CTE students join Ishpeming Senior Center to Plant Trees
Ishpeming High School CTE Students stand on the left while Ishpeming Senior Center Members stand on the right near newly planted trees.
On Saturday May 24 the Ishpeming Lions Club planted fruit/nut trees at the Partridge Creek Community Farm! While community members got to take home a tree of their own, the Lions Club made sure to set aside a few trees for a fun intergenerational activity!
Ishpeming High School Flipping the Food System CTE (career technical education) Horticulture class taught by PCF’s Keats Dormont joined the Ishpeming Senior Center for a fun field trip to plant trees. The CTE class made compost extract and added mycorrhizal fungi spores to inoculate the roots and soil around the new trees with beneficial microbes.
The goal of this tree planting day was to engage all ages of community members in hands-on work with our food system!
Learn More About PCF’s Involvement with the Ishpeming High School CTE Program
Flipping the Food System CTE Horticulture Class
This CTE (career technical education class) is an course taught at Ishpeming High School by Partridge Creek Farm’s Education Coordinator Keats Dormont.
Flipping the Food System focuses on how our community can begin to design food systems that function in beneficial harmony with our surrounding ecosystem. In the winter/spring semester the students will begin by learning the principles of regenerative agriculture and permaculture before practicing protracted observation of the landscape to start to understand and design the gardens they will plant in May & early June.
How To Join This Course
Homeschool and local high school students WILL need to provide their own reliable transportation to and from Ishpeming High School daily to attend this class.
Ishpeming High School Students Welcome
9th-10th Grade students welcome to sign-up
Local High School Students Welcome
9th-10th Grade students welcome to sign-up
Local Homeschool Students Welcome
Ages 14-18 welcome
To enroll your student please:
Learn more at IshpemingSchools.org
Or call the main office at (906) 485-1066
