PACERS Rural Science for Life: Gardening, Marketing, and Passive Solar Greenhouses

During 2008-09 member schools and communities continued to add passive solar greenhouses to the PACERS Rural Science for Life infrastructure. Greenhouses were upgraded to solar passive at Section and Sand Rock high schools and Harlan Elementary. New greenhouses were added at Edward Bell High School and Florala Middle School. The greenhouses are serving as living labs for learning science and as models for passive solar construction that can be replicated by local community members. Several of the greenhouses provide additional and cost-saving heating for schools.

The greenhouses are central components in the PACERS Rural Science for Life comprehensive program. In some cases they will be used to raise plants for sale or for distribution to community members and for transplanting into school gardens. Greenhouse operational and business plans can be prepared with assistance from PACERS science consultants and PACERS Getting Down to Business program.

As has usually been the case with PACERS-related programs, local community members and organizations provided assistance with construction and renovation. For program details and requirements contact admin@pacersinc.org

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