What is Ag-Connect: Inclusive Education

 

 

Working alongside experienced individuals, a work tasks and activities reated for special need youth from the West-island of Montreal to partake into develop valuable transferable skills in nutrition, agriculture and environment.

 

 

 

The youth will learn some of the integral parts of caring for plants and animals that form part of our local agriculture.

 

 

 

This program includes:

 

 

 

• Feeding and caring for the animals in the Macdonald Campus farm's minifarm, including:

 

pigs, donkey and pony, ducks, chickens, sheep, alpaca, llama, sheep and goat

 

 

• Collecting eggs for the laying hens coop, cleaning and selling them

 

 

• Working in all garden tasks with the Macdonald Student Run Ecological Garden (MSEG): working the soil, seeding, weeding, pest management, harvesting vegetable

 

 

• Cleaning and packaging the vegetables and helping MSEG at the Ste-Anne-de-Bellevue market on saterdays

 

 

 

At the end of the Ag-Connect: Inclusive Education program the youth will have gain and attained skillset in agriculture to be put on a CV.

 

 

 

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