I teach a senior botany class at Ringgold High School with the help of my co-teacher, Kristee Griffin. Our classes study plant biology and raise organically grown vegetable crops on the RHS campus. We recently received a $600 grant from the Georgia Association of Educators with which to purchase equipment for the "Botany Garden."
The Botany Garden was started in 2010. All funds and equipment for this endeavor were donated by students, parents and teachers as well as private enterprises such as Seahorse Farms and Babb Lumber. Since then the garden has been relocated twice due to tornado damage, clean-up and rebuilding.
We would like to give credit to the wonderful people at GAE for their generous and timely grant and tell our community what we're doing here at RHS. Our Botany Garden can now purchase everything from shovels and chicken wire to potting soil and fig trees.
Peter Thornton