The school garden and greenhouse have become new outdoor classrooms and two high school classes — Intro to Horticulture and Woodworking — are taking roles in their development. Students in Mr. Genter’s Intro to Horticulture, a new class this semester, planted onions, garlic, bell peppers, jalapenos, and tomatoes from seed in January in their classroom, and have been waiting until the warmer spring weather this month to transfer them to the greenhouse and the garden. Mr. Genter said the plan is to harvest the vegetables that grow and to give them to the Cooking Class to make homemade salsa. His students have also been learning about growing plants from cuttings, including red hibiscus and Rose of Sharon, and the new plants will be replanted this spring in a new butterfly garden.
Mr. Carney’s Woodworking class has been building sturdy potting tables for the greenhouse. Funding for the tables came from a recent grant from AtlantiCare Healthy Schools. The class has completed two plywood nearly 8-foot-long, two-level tables and are working on a third multi-height table that will accommodate all ages of students.
The students in Mr. Genter’s horticulture class — Max Bai, Joshua Guevara, Francis Mensah, and Rose Shaw — were also busy last week setting up storage racks in the greenhouse and filling raised beds in the school garden with new soil in preparation for planting later this month. The storage racks, potting soil, and mulch were recently donated to ACS. The students in woodworking class are Max Bai, Olivia Chapman, Amanda Chau, Andrea Cores, Josephine D’Anna, Lauren Harmon, Constantine Jiang, Cole Johnson, Luke Johnson, Daniel Kim, and Imohimi Unuigbe.
