The program was started in 2015 by Kanerahtiio Hemlock with just one mandate from then director Diane Labelle who said “do something culturally relevant with the students.” He brought them out to the community garden on HWY 30 which was in its first year and had them harvest white corn. The students learned how to braid, store, and prepare corn to beaten as mush, hominy and cornbread. Students then lent a hand in the community by helping elders chop wood, repair fences, winterize trees and collect sap for a local who makes maple syrup. Over time Kanerahtiio would ask the students what they wanted to do next. The students would decide they wanted to make their own gardens at the school as well as a compost pit. They made their own chicken coops to raise chickens on site. Gaining confidence, they would also raise rabbits and ducks. Over the years they have set up and managed their own hydroponics systems, collected and prepared their own traditional medicines, butchered their own meat and raised their own bees. From the later, the students learned how to produce honey to sell as well as make lip balm with the wax. For the most recent project, a student decided she wanted to make a worm farm to better help her compost for her garden.