Junior High School vegetable farm

I love and appreciate so many of the initiatives public schools in Japan offer. To give an example, the daikon (Japanese radish) pictured in this post - my eldest daughter brought it home from her junior high school today, because she had volunteered in the daikon patch in the first and second terms of this school year.

In public schools it is very common for children to grow a flower, plant and / or vegetable or fruit at least once in their six years of elementary school. But in junior high school it is not as common. However, our local junior high school decided to start a "community farm" on the school grounds this year. 

Students were invited to volunteer in the community farm and my two daughters that are currently in the school independently decided to take part. As above, the eldest helped grow daikon. My other JHS aged child helped in the carrot fields and she got to bring home some carrots during the second term. They didn't have to pay - the fruits of their labor, so to speak, is the reward for their voluntary farm work! 

I think its a great idea and would love to see more secondary level schools follow suit. Do the second level schools in your area do anything similar?