Windsor FFA hosted its annual plant sale April 25-May 11, ending the day before Mother’s Day on purpose, and sold hundreds of plants to the Windsor community.
The horticulture class taught by Melinda Spaur (staff) spent the first semester learning how to take care of plants. In the second semester, the class was constantly working in the Johnny Jacoby Educational Greenhouse planting and taking care of their plants preparing for the big sale.
The horticulture students do everything for the plant sale from constantly cleaning the greenhouse and taking care of plants to making flyers to advertise the plant sale to the community.
“There were a lot of fun things about the greenhouse. My favorite thing was probably planting and just watching all the seeds grow,” Jack Oglesby (11) said. “Seeing all your hard work go to the public and everyone is able to benefit from your hard work is rewarding to see.”
Working in the greenhouse is open to more than horticulture students; anyone in the FFA was able to help out with the plant sale.
“I was in horticulture last year and helped with the plant sale, but this year I am in floriculture and still was able to help with the plant sale,” Jenna Cooney (11) said. “I like being able to help the plant sale run smoothly and being able to see the community show up to support FFA.”
The plant sale has been a staple in the community for as long as it has been going, offering plants to local gardeners and connecting them with the agricultural education program.
The Johnny Jacoby Greenhouse was donated to the Windsor FFA by a group of generous donors and was named after Johnny Jacoby to honor his life.
“The horticulture class is really great, the students worked really hard in the greenhouse all semester and I think it was really rewarding for them to see all their work pay off,” Spaur said. “Opening day was really fun for the students to see the turn out and lots of their plants gone in one day.”
The FFA sold nearly all of their plants and what little was left was donated to some elementary schools for students and teachers to plant.
