Students Grow
Moss Haven Farm creates a healthy school environment for students and staff through active learning programs. Classroom lessons are continuously reinforced in a real world, outdoor setting and the Texas Essential Knowledge and Skills (TEKS) are incorporated into farm teaching plans and activities.
Farm Highlights Include:
- Dedicated crop beds for each class (23 areas)
- Herb and history gardens
- Texas Native bed
- Rain catchment and measurement system
- Solar energy irrigation system
- Purple Martin House gourd system
- Learning area with custom tree stump chairs and outdoor chalkboard
- 1500-gallon rainwater harvest systems
- Growing for Giving Garden, high yield crops are donated to North Texas Food Bank
- Compost system, where students place lunch scraps
- After school 4H Club for students
- Certified National Wildlife Habitat and approved Texas Master Gardner volunteer site
- American Heart Association Teaching Garden
- United Way’s Healthy Zone School
- Supplier fresh produce for school salad bar
- Home to a custom chicken coop housing our Egg Laying/ Hatching Poultry Program.
- “Brain Cafe” classroom for students to have farm-to-table experiences
2016-2017 Moss Haven Farm Officers and Committee Members
President: Tiffany Walker
Program Director: Kim Aman
1st VP Funding: Katie Williams
Grant Writer: Heather Pauzer
Secretary: Paula Dudlo
Treasurer: Erin Miller
2nd VP Operations: Laurie Petty
Service Day Chair: Kristie Poteet
Peep at the Coop Chairs: Laurie Petty/Rainy Barry
Salad Bar Chair: Kaki Bates
Classroom Liaison: Sarah Folger Hagen
4H Chair: Ashley Gomez
Website: Erin Prather Stafford
Social Media: Tiffany Walker
At Large: Suzanne Bouvier, Stephanie Dusek, Suzanne Flodin, Andi Loftus, Laura Pendleton, Amy Till, Kristen Sample, Brooke Wagliardo, Elly Weyenburg
