There are plant sales and plant exchanges.
Join a class (in-person) to make container gardens, floral centerpieces and compost.
Or stay home and join a virtual talk on attracting pollinators, building a raised bed and how to use dead plants to predict the future (really).
Because it s spring, there is a session on foraging ramps (wild leeks).
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Saturday, May 1, 8 a.m.-noon. Manheim Central Ag DepartmentÂ
greenhouse sale. Students in the department will sell the plants they grew for the now-canceled Herb and Garden Faire. The sale is also Friday, April 30, 3:30-5 p.m. and continues 3:30-5 p.m., Friday, May 7 and 8 a.m.-noon, Saturday, May 8. The greenhouse is at the high school, 400 E. Adele Ave., Manheim. Enter through the rear parking lot entrance on Hershey Drive. More information:Â lanc.news/MPlants.
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Last winter, students in Manheim Central High Schoolâs FFA plotted out how to grow about 4,000 plants for their stand at Landis Valley Herb & Garden Faire.
Not long later, the pandemic closed school, cut off access to the greenhouse and canceled the plant sale.
Ag science teacher Seth Kensinger rescued hundreds of pepper seedlings and student Anna Haldeman cared for them in structures her family built at her home. Kensinger planted some of the tomato seeds as the lock-down started. Later in the spring, he gave away the plants for donations in hopes of recouping their costs.
This winter, students in the schoolâs new greenhouse management and landscaping class knew the 2021 herb and garden faire was canceled. They still decided to grow a variety of tomatoes, herbs, vegetables and cantaloupe as a class project.