A check for $25,000 was presented to Hardin-Houston Local Schools on Friday. Hardin-Houston was a grant recipient for the America’s Farmers Grow Rural Education program, sponsored by the Monsanto Fund. The money will be used to fund half of a brand-new greenhouse behind the school.
Every year, this program gives $2.3 million to deserving school districts to help promote their math and science curriculums.
Since 2011, when the fund started, it has been able to award $9 million to further education.
Back in January, the group asked local farmers across the nation to nominate their local high schools for the grants. The farmers, community, teachers and administrators got together to work on a grant proposal.