Agriculture & Science
"Cultivating Leadership through the Land"
Land Stewardship & STEM
Children of Fallen Heroes’ Agriculture & Sustainable Science program connects land stewardship with hands-on STEM education. Participants explore environmental science, regenerative agriculture, and emerging technologies — building real-world skills while learning how to protect the land that supports our communities.
Soil Science
Hands-on exploration of soil composition, conservation methods, and sustainable management on our 82-acre campus.
Water Systems
Understanding irrigation technology, watershed science, and responsible water usage for long-term sustainability.
Regenerative Farming
Learning crop rotation, biodiversity, and land restoration strategies that promote environmental resilience.
Agri-Tech
Integrating drones for field mapping and data analysis to support precision agriculture and modern stewardship.
Stewardship does not stop when something is grown. Young people should be able to understand the entire journey: Grow it. Harvest it. Prepare it. Understand it. Share it.
Culinary Education
From the Land to the Kitchen
Food creates a natural connection between land stewardship, agriculture, science, nutrition, wellness and careers.
Young people can learn about soil, help grow food, understand where their food comes from, harvest what they helped produce and ultimately learn how to prepare it.
The kitchen becomes another STEM classroom.
Cooking introduces chemistry, mathematics, biology, nutrition, technology, creativity and entrepreneurship through experiences young people can see, touch, taste and understand.
Programming can eventually include hands-on cooking classes, chefs and special guests, farmers, food entrepreneurs, nutrition professionals and community mentors.
Cooking Classes + Special Guests
Hands-on classes alongside chefs, bakers, farmers, food entrepreneurs, nutrition professionals and community mentors. A young person might arrive wanting to prepare a meal and leave wondering what they could become.
Nutrition + Wellness
How food affects energy, performance and long-term health — and the practical skills behind it: understanding ingredients, shopping, preparing affordable meals and building healthier habits at home.
Farm to Kitchen
Learn about soil outside, help grow food, harvest what you produced, bring it into the teaching kitchen and prepare it. Agriculture, science, nutrition and culinary arts in one experience.
Careers + Mentorship
Exposure to culinary arts, hospitality, agriculture, nutrition, food science, restaurant operations and entrepreneurship — meeting people who actually work in these fields.
Agriculture + Culinary + Nutrition + Wellness become one connected learning experience.
Stories Behind the Program
Why This Matters
Story 01
Dylan’s Dream
Sometimes one chance can change the direction of a life.
Dylan’s love of cooking began long before he entered a professional kitchen.
It started at home, learning to cook alongside his grandmother, Judy Kraft Wasley, surviving spouse of U.S. Army Golden Knight Michael Wasley. What began around family and food grew into something Dylan genuinely loved.
As he got older, that love of cooking became an opportunity. Dylan worked his way into the culinary world, where something learned at home became more than a skill. It gave him direction — a place to work, learn, grow and discover what he was capable of becoming.
But what defined Dylan wasn’t simply what he did. It was who he was.
From childhood, Dylan was someone who wanted to help others. He was the kind of person who would give someone the shirt off his back. He understood what it meant to need another chance, and he knew that a person’s circumstances did not have to determine where their story ended.
Dylan was killed by a drunk driver in 2020. He was the last of his family bloodline, but what was passed down to him doesn’t have to end with him.
Dylan’s Dream carries it forward.
The same way someone once stood beside Dylan and taught him, we can stand beside another young person.
- Teach them.
- Give them responsibility.
- Let them make something with their own hands.
- Introduce them to people and careers they never knew existed.
- And most importantly, give them a chance.
Through Culinary Education, young people will have opportunities to learn cooking, agriculture, nutrition and wellness; work alongside chefs, mentors and special guests; and explore careers and possibilities that may otherwise never cross their path.
For some, it may simply become a skill they carry home.
For another, it may become a passion.
For another, a career.
And for someone who has been knocked off course, it might become the chance that helps them find their way forward.
That is Dylan’s Dream.
In his own words · kindergarten
“I might be a policeman.” “I might be a fireman.” “But no matter what clothes I wear, it will still be me in there.” — made by Dylan in kindergarten
Dylan understood a system that failed him, yet he always wanted to help those truly in need — especially children.
Dylan’s Dream Is About Chances.
We cannot know which experience will change the direction of a young person’s life.
It could be their first flight.
Their first horse.
Their first drone.
Their first bicycle.
Their first garden.
Or the first meal they prepare beside someone who recognizes something in them and says:
“You’re good at this.”
That is what Dylan’s Dream represents.
Not simply a kitchen.
A chance for another young person to discover what they can become.
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Register today for our upcoming Agriculture and Sustainable Science workshops.
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