Clinch River Community School plant sale to begin March 31
The annual spring plant sale will begin Monday (March 31) at the Clinch River Community School greenhouse behind Anderson County High School. (photo:G. Chambers Williams III )
Held as a benefit for the school, “Money raised from the plant sale goes right back into the agricultural educational programs for Clinch River students,” said Kendra McCoig, agriculture teacher at the school.
Her school’s greenhouse is up on the hill next to the school, and is not connected with the separate greenhouses along Charles G. Seivers Boulevard next door to the high school.
The Clinch River school’s assistant principal, Nate Stecker, said the greenhouse had $2,000 in sales in the first hour of its sale last year.
“This is always the big fundraiser for our agriculture program,” he said.
He said the school has been holding the sale since it opened at the current location in the 2012-13 school year.
Sales hours are 8 a.m. to 4 p.m. weekdays, and the school accepts cash and checks, but no debit or credit cards.
McCoig said the plans are to keep the sale going until May 2 or whenever the stock of plants runs out, if that’s sooner.
“We usually sell out of flowers in the first week,” she said.
Among the items for sale in the Clinch River school’s greenhouse, all created by the students, are:
n Hanging baskets, $15-$20.
n Vegetables, $2.50 for a pack of four plants.
Available are tomato plants (13 varieties), peppers (eight varieties), cucumbers (three varieties), cabbage, cantaloupe, watermelon, okra, squash, zucchini, walking onions, and a variety of herbs.
n Flowers, $2.50 for a pack of four plants.
Offered are begonias, celosía, coleus, dianthus, French marigolds, hypoestes, impatiens, lobelia, pansies, petunias, portulaca, verbena, vinca and zinnia.
n Six-inch pots of flowers, $4 each.
Among them are black-eyed Susan, citronella, columbine, common periwinkle, coneflower, creeping phlox, forget-me-nots, Gerber daisy, lamb’s ear, lantana, lavender, Shasta daisy, sunflowers, and yarrow.
n All full flats are $18.
Clinch River Community School has students from kindergarten through 12th-grade, and is part of Anderson County Schools.
