Students at a New Haven magnet school are learning more than just standard classroom lessons - they're getting hands-on business, science and agricultural experience through the Green Thumbs program at High School in the Community.
Lessons taught at the institution on Water Street enable students to grow more familiar with urban farming, gardening and environmental education, while becoming knowledgeable about sustainability practices and how to use problem-solving to tackle community issues.
Currently, students in the program are using their skills to grow a mushroom and lettuce farm in a 40-foot storage container. It's the first of its kind in the school district. What began as a humble idea has turned into a project that even a professional farmer would find impressive.
Students in science teacher Paul Jones' class even launched a small business to go along with the farm and call it the "Harvest Scholars Company." "Yeah, this is pretty nuts," Jones admitted. "I learned long ago that when good ideas come down the road, you have to just jump on them."
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