BYRON — One greenhouse has inspired almost too many goals to count.
In discussions about the newly-built 1,000-square-foot facility at Byron High School, almost every sentence — from students to teachers to administration — begins with the words, “Well, the goal is…”
From Alison Newman, agriculture education instructor and FFA adviser: “The goal is hands-on experience in growing plants. Students can see how things grow, figure things out for themselves and have specimens to practice on.”
And later: “The goal is to build classes. We have one horticulture and landscaping class now; I suspect that might grow to two. There’s science classes, an ecology class, a floral design class, foods class and biology class; it’ll be there for other teachers to use for lessons. We can grow vegetables for the (Food and Consumer Sciences) class so they don’t have to buy so much.”
Later yet: “We’ll have a huge plant sale each spring, and the goal is to sell mums in the fall, tulips and daffodils in the spring, poinsettias at Christmas.
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