Our main classroom is the hub of the Agricultural department. During the day this is where Miss Hart teaches, but after school you can almost always find one of the instructors here working on something, or groups of students prepping for contests and socializing. This is also the location of FFA chapter meetings, FFA officer meetings, Open Ag Room sessions, and other events throughout the year.  If you ever have any questions about anything we are doing in the agricultural department please stop down!

Our greenhouse classroom is home to all of the plant science, natural resource, and biotechnology courses. This is where you will find Mr. Kruse during the day. Equipped with soil tables, its own restroom, storage space, stainless steel student work stations, stools, and access to the great outdoors, you will feel lucky to get to have class in the greenhouse classroom!

The middle school classroom is the hub for all thing middle school Ag Ed and FFA. This is where you will find Mr. Hutson teaching. When he is not teaching agriculture he is teaching robotics, and in all honesty he is most likely trying to show the comparison between the two! New this year, the middle school classroom has a Grow Tower, which is a hydroponic system designed to grow leafy greens in the classroom.

Our greenhouse is a state of the art facility that we pride ourselves on. It has 2 main parts: one side for aeroponics, aquaponics, hydroponics, and microgreen growth, and the other side is where almost all of our plant sale plants are grown, watered, and pruned to perfection before our spring sale. We are also equipped with our own weather station that tells the greenhouse what to do to maintain temperature. For example, on a hot and sunny day when the sun is beaming directly onto our greenhouse our weather station will extend the shade cloths across the ceiling to prevent sun scorch and maintain temperature. Also, if there needs more air flow the greenhouse will open its vents to create that. And who said agriculture and technology didn't mix!

The pathways lab is an extension of the main classroom in the high school. This space is used for many things such as messy or active labs, animal guest housing, or extra plant storage. It is also home to our classroom pets: a holland lop rabbit named Dottie, a Chinese Dwarf hamster named Gravy, and 2 red-eared slider turtles named Big Mama and Shelly currently.

Also an extension of our main classroom, the food science lab is for both Food Science 1 and Food Science 2 to conduct labs, research, and learning. We have recently added 2 brand new ovens with stove-tops that we are very excited to try out this year!

As part of the districts most recent land acquisition and referendum, our district added several forested locations to our school grounds. With our districts blessing, we were approved in the Fall of 2020 to utilize these spaces as WI School Forests through the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources. Our plan moving forward is to maintain the health of the forests, add walking paths and upcycled benches, and cut away harmful or low hanging branches where people could get hurt.

Our solar array, stationed near the greenhouse entrance, is here because of a STUDENTS passion for sustainable energy. She wrote grants, conducted meetings with the school board, came up with a plan with Adams Electric in town, and executed her project, all before leaving for college! She also lead a team of FFA members to National's in the Ag Issues Competition with their project titled "Is solar power a viable energy source in the agriculture industry?". We are so proud of you Shannon Wulf!

Currently, we have a 2.5 acre plot of land that has been planted with soybeans for summer 2021. In future years we would like to run some crop trials, grown and sell sweet corn, or plant evergreen trees to sell during the holidays. The options are vast, and we are fortunate to have this space available to us!

• Our middle school program has a garden space for students to get in some "hands-on" learning about where their food comes from, specifically fruits and vegetables. It also helps teach responsibility and work ethic as character traits.

• At the high school level we have 2 raised garden beds that students can reserve and grow their own gardens in over the spring and summer months for FREE! All we ask is that they maintain the weeds and volunteer some time with the FFA Chapter in a community service project to "pay" for their use of the garden.