Few Alabama students take agriscience. These groups want to change that.

At Black BeltCommunity Foundation Head Start in Selma, students not only grow food but use it for counting and language lessons. The program is part of an effort in the Black Belt to provide agriscience education for students in a food insecure region. 🥬

Survey results revealed residents wanted more resources and education, specifically asking for efforts to train and encourage young people to go into agriculture.

Payne-Purvis has helped create the Auburn Sustenance Project, which plants gardens at nine elementary schools in Auburn City with a high number of kids who experience food insecurity. But schools in the Black Belt have the lowest enrollment in the state due to program funding, few incentives for students to enroll, agriscience teacher shortages and soil erosion that’s made food production in the region very difficult, experts said.

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