US (NY): Students rejuvenate High School greenhouse
Three grants are paying for ARC to run a gardening program at the greenhouse for students enrolled in life skills classes at the high school.
These are students who are generally not mainstreamed and will stay in school until they turn 21. For them, the greenhouse isn’t a way to learn science.
Instead, it’s way for them to discover that they can breathe life into a seed.
They started with full-grown flowers and learned to divide them into cuttings. They spent the winter nursing those to health, each student in charge of their own plant. Then they started planting vegetable seeds, and now they’re seeing the first green shoots push out of the soil.
“They take ownership of their plants, and they take pride in the job,” said ARC horticulture coordinator Donna Vincent.
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