Students discovered through a survey that the people in community across the street from the school were not eating fresh food, because the local farmers market did not accept food stamps. They decided to encourage the eating of fresh food improving health of the environment and the neighbors by planting a garden and working with Soil Born Farms to set up a farm stand that will accept food stamps.

Trashin' Fashin' was a fashion show meant to teach that eating packaged and processed foods cause a land fill and energy problem, because fresh food grown locally does not need to be transported great distances or packing. Students created fashion from stuff destined for the trash can like these cleaned up, but used plastic plates and packaging materials