New Hampshire high school to build greenhouse

Sanborn Regional High, located in Kingston and Newton, NH is seeking community help as it gears up to begin an 18-month process of building a school greenhouse, according to Principal Brian Stack.

Each year, Stack surveys his faculty and staff asking for suggestions about what to propose to the Sanborn Seminary Trustees, a group which funds classroom projects, and this year, nurse Karen Scanlon had a special, and ambitious, idea that immediately struck a chord.

"Hey, what do you think about a greenhouse?" Scanlon said she asked Stack. "And the project came up with a life of its own."

Teachers from almost every discipline sent Scanlon ideas, she said, so many that she could not fit them all into the proposal the school sent to the Trustees.

According to Scanlon, social studies teachers took an interest in the greenhouse project as an opportunity to teach about geography and food economics, math teachers saw a chance to graph plant growth rates and even art classes could draw inspiration from and find great subjects in the variety of plant life growing in a greenhouse, to name a few.

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