Rocky Lane School Agricultural Program
Impacts Northern Alberta
RADF Investment: $900,000
Other Investment: $2,880,000
Total Investment: $3,780,000
Project Period: October 2011 - December 2013
Aboriginal
Community Development
Education
Project Description
Rocky Lane Agricultural Program is an education program that provides students with entrepreneurial, leadership and business management skills by offering off-campus learning opportunities through the operation of a farm/ranch as part of the provincial curriculum. Through mixed agricultural activities, including crops/vegetable gardens, greenhouse and animal husbandry, students will learn how to plan, design, market and manage micro-businesses.
Expected Outcomes & Benefits
All projects go through a selection process to ensure they will improve the quality of life for Albertans. This project meets this objective through the following outcomes and benefits:
- Prepare students for good citizenship, the workplace and post-secondary education
- Students will acquire management, marketing and entrepreneurial skills through hands-on work on the farm
- Increase learning opportunities, which will improve student engagement, achievement and high school completion rates
- This project will act as a model to be implemented in other rural Alberta communities
- Better equipping the younger generation with skills to succeed will advance rural development and agriculture in the future