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Animal Science, Agriscience and Horticulture Courses are all courses that many students have benefited from, not only in their knowledge of farming but in life skills.
This photo gallery highlights the valuable work done by our students to keep the chickens, vegetables, and flowers prosperous at Watauga High School.
Avery Stone, sophmore.
"I love the actual hands on portion of everything, getting to spend 45 minutes out in the greenhouse cleaning or like planting stuff doesn't feel like work," said Haylee Bare. "It just feels like spending time outside."
"FFA makes it a goal of theirs to get people to talk, become friends and get to know other people. I think we both learned like speaking skills and being able to make everyone feel included throughout the day," said Lily Farley. "It's not just about agriculture. It's about relations. and even marketing is a big part of it."
The Potato Plants
"In animal science, you have to go feed the chickens, water them every day, you collect their eggs, and you have to wash off their eggs," said Sydni Carmichael. "You also then have to clean out their bedding because you don't want it to get built up with muck because that's not healthy for the eggs or the chickens."
"For the plant sale, they set everything up, they made all of the flyers, they did all of the cleaning, all the prep beforehand, handled money and helped customers, they do pretty much everything," said Haylee Bare. "Some of them we start from seeds ourselves. We'll buy the seeds and grow them in the greenhouse, some of them we buy from a larger distributor as very small cuttings. When we get them, they're less than an inch tall, with barely any roots on them. So we start the process and learn from it throughout the semester."
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