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US: Georgia Drug Task Force donate greenhouse technology to schools

Once used to grow illegal drugs, hydroponic greenhouse equipment this week moved on to better uses in high school agriculture programs. Donated Tuesday by the Bartow-Cartersville (GA), Drug Task Force, the technology, which filled a small tractor-trailer, will be split between Adairsville, Cass and Woodland high schools.

“This is the result of a seizure from an indoor marijuana grow, hydroponic grow that we confiscated and did asset forfeiture on and had it forfeited to the state from a marijuana grower,” DTF Commander Capt. Mark Mayton said. “This is just another example of where we’ve taken a drug dealer’s profits and gains and turned them back for the good of the community.”

Lights, pumps, dividers, hoses, air stones — the thousands of dollars in equipment will be installed at each school to teach students the latest in alternative grow methods.

“We just got a new ag lab, so this will give us some equipment that we can set up in there and the kids can see both sides,” said Tyrone Casteel with Woodland High. “We have the greenhouse now. Hydroponics is becoming big in the industry. They do basil and lettuce and things like that, so the kids can see that side of it also.”

Capable of growing most garden produce and cut flowers, the hydroponic equipment also can be used for aquaponics, which is what Cass High teacher Joey Dean plans to do.

Each school will have students set up the hydroponic grow systems with produce expected to be ready in the Spring.
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