Business was brisk on Saturday, April 26, during their second sales day at the Portland Public Schools Community Transition Program Green Thumb Campus, located in the Brentwood-Darlington neighborhood. Perhaps encouraged by the delightful spring weather, within hours of opening for business, many of the plants in their greenhouse had been scooped up by gardeners.
"Everything that we're selling are 'products' from our student interns who are working here throughout the week," observed Vocation Transition Specialist Rachel Hermansen told East Portland News. "They start all the plants from seed and propagation, have been maintaining them and building our inventory, and they're also participating in the plant sale."
Even though they started with "thousands of plants – for example, we had at least 500 tomato plants to start with – the tables are already starting to look bare, because everything is selling so quickly," Hermansen said. "This may be our best single day at one of our sales, ever!"
The PPS Community Transition Program works with students from 18 to 21 years of age who are gaining the community-based skills, life skills, and vocational skills, explained Hermansen. "The 'Green Thumb' greenhouse is one of our vocational training programs to build work-readiness skills for future employment."
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