Meet the Class!

The Boone Central Greenhouse class is  a unique class co-taught by Katie Wilson and Abby Hitchler covering a wide range of plant science and agronomic topics.  The class may be taken for one semester or two and students will find themselves both in the classroom and out in our state-of-the-art 36 ft x 48 ft greenhouse. Students grow and sell poinsettias in the fall/winter and have a large spring sale with many annuals and perennials in potted and hanging basket arrangements.  Scroll down to see more of what the greenhouse class is up to and click here to learn more about our collaboration with the Prairie Plains Resource Institute.

The greenhouse has two hydroponic grow towers.  Both of them were purchased by FFA and provide students the opportunity to grow produce via this technique!

Greenhouse students have the opporunity to learn about aquaponics and have hands-on experience growing plants and fish via our Nelson & Pade F5 system.  The purchase of this system was made possible via the America's Farmers Grow Rural Education Monsanto Fund.

Audra and Kealie have grown succulents in the green house and every week they give one to a teacher.

Natalie has been working on the Grow towers all year. She has to start and restart the grow towers because the hoses were down and kept breaking, but now she has figured out was what wrong and the grow towers are working and are healthy. She says that because of all the struggles it was a great opportunity to learn things like how to solve problems and how to fix the grow tower.