ITT: a lot of people who didn't read the article.

The land was empty and donated for this purpose, the school previously had to stay inside due to dust storms, they are using the money to send the students on trips. From the description it sounds like they spend most of the time just looking at the wheat when outside.

Also there's only 7 students at the entire school. This is RURAL rural. From kindergarten to year six - for them this is probably closer to glorified recess. Kids this age, anything not sitting at a desk is fun as hell.

Had a nature garden at my elementary school growing up, and I would have loved to spend a half hour in there every day messing around with the pond, composting, picking weeds and planting plants, etc. But nooooo, we would get to go out there maybe five times a year. My mother works at the school now, and I went to see her recently and they ripped out the entire nature center and replaced it with some grass and concrete.