Dec. 2—Grow it and they will eat.
That’s the hope of Marion Harding High School students who are helping to build a greenhouse. Once completed, the greenhouse will be used to grow vegetables that will be fed to students in the cafeteria.
It’s a plan that Marion City Schools food service director Winnie Brewer hopes spread to other buildings.
Adam Schmidt, who teaches environmental science at Harding, pitched the idea of building a greenhouse when principals sought ideas for Harding’s Hub 21 after-school program. Brewer supported it and added the part about using what’s grown in the cafeteria.