On Thursday evening students, Victoria Young, Gabriela Vallejos and Jamie Justice picked up trash from around the site of the Los Alamos Middle School Community Garden. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

The Los Alamos Youth Food Project’s [LAYFP] key goal is to develop a community garden adjacent to the Los Alamos Middle School near the new Solar Array and KRSN AM 1490 antenna.

The garden will be available to K-12 LA Public School students, to community organizations and to individuals.

Other garden locations may be developed as well, including a greenhouse at the Los Alamos Cooperative Market.

Students will learn a wide variety of skills by participating in the project, such as biology, environmental studies, communications, marketing, social networking, project planning, engineering and much more.

Picking up trash on a windy afternoon. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

Los Alamos Middle School teacher and leader of the Los Alamos Youth Food Project, Stephanie Krantz, finds plenty of trash in the garden area. Photo by Greg Kendall/ladailypost.com

To learn more about the Los Alamos Youth Food Project, visit the Focus section in the Los Alamos Daily Post : LAYFP FOCUS.