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School greenhouse

I am a retired community organizer and small-scale farmer. For two years my wife and I have been partnering with the Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley School on a community-school garden project. The youth work in the garden to produce vegetables that are donated to the senior citizen programs here in Graceville. This last growing season 150 young people worked in the garden. The success of the community school garden has created some positive energy in the community and has moved people to think of other possibilities. The Clinton-Graceville-Beardsley School Board at its regular meeting on December 14, 2009, gave us the go-ahead to begin exploring the possibility of building a greenhouse at one of the two schools in the C-G-B District. There does not seem to be much in the way of precedents for an on-campus greenhouse at an elementary, middle or high school in Minnesota. Is there any such in Minnesota? Even if there is, we are asking for every kind of assistance on all the issues that might be involved in bringing forward such a greenhouse project: - design, with an eye to keeping operating costs to a minimum - applicable rules and regs - capital funding - operation and management - operating funds - educational use of a greenhouse - greenhouse for a school lunch program

Type: Informational Interview

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Requested Date: 12/14/2009

Due Date: 9/7/2010

School District: CLINTON-GRACEVILLE-BEARDSLEY (2888-01)

Number of Students: 330

Zip Code: 56240