Rogers High School HorticultureHydroponics Team:Nadia Tate-Maloney, Natassia Russel, Tyler Reddick, Isaiah Branch , Alycia Fraticelli

Horticulture Class• Purpose: give students the opportunity to learn

and practice the art of plant cultivation and management

• Lets students find their own particular passion within the class and focus / learn more on that specialty

• Students tie their particular interest and project's to their future careers

• Give plants and food they grow back to the culinary program

Zen Garden

Projects within the Class

Cleaning up and adding to the Rogers Zen Garden Planting and replanting a variety of flowers and

vegetables around the school Raking and pulling dead weeds from around the

school Watering plants around the school Inside planting of vegetables, herbs, and flowers

(hydroponics) Maintenance of rain gardens Planning for greening of the school

Hydroponics 1 & 2• Testing the way flowers and herbs grow inside

compared to outside• Students take care of a inside garden and

maintain its environment• Feed and water the plants• Observe and record their growth • Goal:

to get the herbs to grow at least 18-25 inches high

give the vegetables that grow to the culinary diner or nursing homes