STAR School students grow food sovereignty effort
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A STAR School student holds a harvest from the school garden as part of the school’s student-run food sovereignty program in Leupp, Ariz.
LEUPP, Ariz.
The STAR School has turned its student-run garden, livestock and cooking programs into a working food sovereignty effort, according to a two-year impact report released this month.
The 2024-26 report tracks how those programs have grown and how they tie traditional Diné agriculture to everyday classwork. Children plant and harvest in the garden, raise and butcher sheep in the livestock club, and cook what they grow over the course of the year.
The school’s livestock program grew out of a 2022 grant for a trailer and barn. STAR opened a 4-H Livestock Club in 2025 and has run it fully since this spring, with students raising sheep, cattle and chickens on campus. They handle daily feeding, watering, cleaning, grooming and vaccinations, and have taken hands-on lessons in sheep shearing and fiber production.
To read the full article, please see the June 25, 2026, edition of the Navajo Times.
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