For almost 35 years, there has been an annual plant sale hosted in the green house. This year the plant sale is being held from April 26 through May 7.
“First day is just for parents,” environmental education teacher Michael Pisani said. “It starts like April 25, that’s a Friday, so we just have a parents night for a couple hours just because everything gets picked off really easily. It just gives them parents an opportunity to look at (the plants) while everything’s still there.”
With the sale being led by students, it has been described by Pisani as “controlled chaos.” With students running around the greenhouse, selling plants, helping customers and asking questions during their two and a half hour shifts, Pisani just tries to manage the chaos of students, parents, and community members going in and out of the greenhouse.
“I feel like it’s gonna be pretty crazy,” junior Cassidy Prince said. “He describes it as pretty crazy. He says there’s gonna be a lot of people.”
Students have been preparing for the plant sale the whole year, learning their plants, how to grow them and doing constant trips to the green room. With this assignment being mandatory, everyone in environmental education is going to serve a role in the sale.
“We’ve been using the class periods to get ready for the plant sale,” junior Ethan Patton said. “Moving down to the greenhouse, planning stuff like all the different plants. In class we learn about the different types, like perennials, biennials and stuff like that in class, and more about the plants. So that in the plant sale itself, we can tell the customers on our own, so we have that knowledge that way we don’t have to lean on the teacher.”
The plant starts Friday April 25, and will be running every Wednesday, Saturday and Sunday for the next couple days. Wednesdays are three to six, Saturdays from 9:00 A.M. to 6:00 P.M. and lastly Sundays are 11:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
