Green Team earns grant money for greenhouse

[dropcap]W[/dropcap]allace Middle School’s Green Team is going even greener with the new addition of a greenhouse to their gardening club.

The greenhouse was funded by the Healthier U.S. School Challenge Grant. Co-sponsors of the club, retired secretary Holly Cass, art teacher Britt Irick and cafeteria manager Kate Webster, posed with students at a ribbon cutting ceremony last week.

The middle school has had the gardening and nutrition program dating back to a 2011 Education Foundation Innovative Teaching Grant. This grant, and subsequent others, allowed the club to buy rain collection tanks that keep the garden hydrated during the summer months.