News – Sheridan Media
In October, the A/C School Lunch with the Community was held on Oct. 1. Herculean —“The House of Resilience” hosted the lunch, and several of the members gave a brief program about their house.
The house is named after the warrior, Hercules, and the members carry the belief that resilience was the highest virtue—that the greatest victories were not over beasts, but over hardship, fear, and self-doubt.
Superintendent Chase Christensen started Lunch with the Community in Clearmont, as a way of involving the community with the school.
The Wyoming Farm to School Day this year is October 8. It is a day set aside to celebrate Wyoming’s agriculture by serving locally grown foods in Wyoming schools.
A/C has a commercial grade greenhouse, and the students have been growing their own produce for two years.
Amada Schmidt, new agriculture teacher at SCSD#3, felt positive about the vegetables that were being grown in the garden and greenhouse at the school. She said before she came to Clearmont School, the school had an established garden that they planted in late May.
As a way to celebrate Farm to School day, the mashed potatoes, some of the salad vegetables and the pumpkin cake desert were all made using foods grown in the school garden.
Chef Aubrey Holland not only uses the vegetables in the school meals but also helps to keep the garden growing.
Of course, Wyoming weather does not always cooperate with gardeners, Holland laughed.
For A/C School, the Farm to School program is working well to provide healthy meals from locally grown produce. Students also learn about where the foods come from and how to plant, care for and harvest the fresh vegetables.
The Community Lunch at the School is held on the first Wednesday of each month, and all community members are welcome.
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Last modified: October 3, 2025