Specialty Crop

Students in the Buffalo High School horticulture and plant science classes learn many aspects of horticulture during classroom discussions, and they get hands-on experience growing vegetables, herbs, fruits, and flowers in an 18ʹ × 36ʹ greenhouse at the school.

The greenhouse can be kept warm during winter months with propane heaters and fans, and when funding is available to operate the heaters students will begin growing produce and flower starts in late winter and early spring. Growing continues until fall.

Students, including those with special needs, are also growing a variety of potatoes and herbs for the school’s culinary classes, and students in those classes make French fries, trying various recipes of toppings using fresh herbs.

Another goal is to expand the floriculture program, and begin growing cut flowers for May baskets.