Oregon students learn to grow in greenhouses

A Dalles, Ore. school provides a greenhouse for students to grow plants, eat lunch, and fundraise.

A school in Dalles, Ore. provides a greenhouse for students to garden, eat lunch, and fundraise.

The Dalles Chronicle profiled an elementary school that is using a greenhouse to help teach students. Inside the greenhouse students help tend to plants, transplant plants into and out of the greenhouse, and eat a warm, colorful lunch.

The proverbial fruits of the greenhouse labor is sometimes sold in a fundraiser to benefit the school and its programs. The greenhouse helped raise about $200 through the sale of geraniums and begonias to True Value.

To see the full article, go to the Dalles Chronicle website.