MFF Rooted in Service Volunteer of the Month: Noa Biggio
- Noa Biggio
- Jul 22
- 2 min read
Spotlighting Military Community Members Cultivating Resilience Around the Globe.
Guest blogger and Army military child, Noa Biggio, was asked to tell us about her Eagle Scout project at the New Century Middle School's Outdoor Classroom and Butterfly Garden! What an incredible initiative and some serious hardwork and dedication! Great job Noa!! We are so proud of you here at Mission: Food Forest and are so grateful for your heart of service!
Read what Eagle Scout, Noa, had to say below!
July 2025
New Century Middle School's Outdoor Classroom and Butterfly Garden
Eagle Scout Project Donated and Led by Noa Rose Biggio.
In the spring of 2025 I led the recreation of the outdoor classroom at New Century Middle School, in Carthage, North Carolina. The idea first came to me when I thought about some other community service projects, like volunteering at my local community garden with Ms. Alisyn in Fort Knox, Kentucky. My original plan was to install planter boxes around the walkway at my school, but upon speaking with my principal she explained that New Century already had a garden, only it hadn’t been maintained or watered for years. So with her permission, I planned to weed, re-soil, and plant in the boxes and remulch and weed the border bed.
After measuring and getting my project proposal approved, I asked local stores for help and received generous donations from: Ace Hardware @ Southern Pines, Tractor Supply @ Vass, and Carthage Farm Supply @ Carthage. Thank you so much to all these stores, we couldn’t have done it without you! All the stores were given thank you notes afterwards. I then asked for volunteers from my Scout Troop, fellow Scouts at school, and fellow members of the Beta Club, a non-profit volunteer organization.
Once I set the dates, the real hard work began. We had to pull up the frames of the farthest three boxes so we could dig out all the grass. Then we lined all the boxes with fabric and laid down fresh soil generously donated from Carthage Farm Supply. This was the most demanding workday and took almost all day to complete, about 6 hours.
The next two work days we planted and watered. I did an entire box of mint, and all of the plants were perennials except for one box. We did rosemary and poppies and tulips and phlox, lambs ear, coreopsis, cone flowers, a butterfly bush, meadow sage, gladiolas, and black eyed susans, as well as other plants. We chose drought resistant and strong smelling plants for the butterflies and bees, as well as vibrantly colored flowers.
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