US (NE): Making a run-down greenhouse bloom again
“There was a lot of dead stuff. My day was cleaning out a lot of dead matter," said Trotter, who is manager of the greenhouse and the recently opened Schuyler Community Schools Field House.
The greenhouse still had a pen where former agriculture teacher Tom Wheeldon kept some pigs. That is gone now, too.
It’s been replaced by a variety of ferns and house plants lining one wall of the greenhouse. Amaryllis bulbs and oleander cuttings recently planted by vocational agriculture teacher Brant Peters’ floriculture class should be ready to bloom by the holidays.
Having a greenhouse manager has made a big difference in a short amount of time. The job didn’t exist until Trotter arrived with her husband, Mike.
Schuyler Community Schools hired Mike to be the new high school art teacher last spring. The Trotters, who have two young children, were looking for an opportunity to move to a rural area, closer to family.
Trotter grew up on a farm north of Columbus. She learned to garden from her grandparents and parents, who kept a vegetable garden.
“You didn’t have to make things pretty, but that was a bonus,” she said.
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