{"id":120235,"date":"2014-05-15T21:18:59","date_gmt":"2014-05-16T03:18:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/students-apply-their-skills-to-garden-shed-construction\/"},"modified":"2014-05-15T21:18:59","modified_gmt":"2014-05-16T03:18:59","slug":"students-apply-their-skills-to-garden-shed-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/students-apply-their-skills-to-garden-shed-construction\/","title":{"rendered":"Students apply their skills to garden shed construction"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

\"Vinton
Vinton Vicenti hammers a support for a shed at Cortez Middle School\u2019s School to Farm garden. At left are Max Smith and Keagan Sanchez, working with one of the Home Depot volunteer crew.<\/span>Sam Green\/Cortez Journal<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p>

Last Friday, sawdust filled the air as Cortez students from the eighth-grade Advance Industrial Technology worked to finish rough-hewn benches for a garden expansion project.<\/p>\n

The students and community volunteers started construction on a campus shed near the tennis courts.<\/p>\n

The 21 students spent all day working on the benches and the shed they designed with volunteers from Home Depot under the direction of Brett LeCompte, a contractor from Swallows Nest Natural Building.<\/p>\n

Instead of building a model structure as the they normally would, the students learned about all the aspects of building a real shed from possible foundations to different fasteners, said their teacher Keri Mustoe. Before the construction the students dug the holes for the foundation.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe kids have been awesome. They have been focused,\u201d said Stacy Armbruster the Cortez Middle School AmeriCorps garden coordinator.<\/p>\n

The 12-by-16-foot shed will hold all the tools and materials needed by the school garden expansion, which will include a half-acre of ground dedicated to large-scale production.<\/p>\n

The school garden started at the middle school in the fall and the shed is part of an expansion that could include an orchard and a greenhouse.<\/p>\n

The Colorado Health Foundation gave the Montezuma School to Farm Project almost $53,000 on March 1 to hire a garden coordinator and to plant the half acre and the goal is to grow 4,000 pounds of produce in the first year.<\/p>\n

The garden will be managed by the newly hired garden coordinator over the summer.<\/p>\n

The aim is to grow enough produce to sell at a farmers market to help the garden to become self-sustaining.<\/p>\n

Home Depot, Lonnies Glass shop and many other local businesses donated materials to the project.<\/p>\n

mshinn@cortezjournal.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

M-CHS eighth-graders build at site of expanded garden<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":120236,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[5794,5735],"tags":[147,1587,438],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-120235","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","category-news","tag-cortez-middle-school","tag-farms","tag-food"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120235","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120235"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120235\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120236"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120235"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120235"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120235"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=120235"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}