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Agriculture
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Ag in Action at Saint Peter High School

contributes to hands- seven welding booths, two automated milling events being our annual Farm to School Day,
on learning, higher and lathe machines, a car hoist and a full tire and the roll’N for Landon.
education, and student repair system. With these machines, we have Our Farm to School event takes place
success. We also have the ability to provide an education that is one during the school day. FFA assists the kitchen
a very large classroom of a kind to our students. The machines and in cooking a lunch of some kind, in the past it
featuring a garage equipment that students work with, align with has been things such as chicken that was raised
door which is a huge current manufacturing standards in the work- by the ag department. We also host a career
plus for the program. force. This allows our students to gain industry fair during lunch and invite agriculture related
The Greenhouse, knowledge, so they can be prepared for the businesses from the surrounding area to set up
which students can workforce and/ or college. a table and chat with students. This is a great
utilize on a daily All students in grades 9–12 are eligible to event that gets the community involved.
basis, is the most uti- take these courses. They take part in hands-on The roll’N for Landon event is a car
lized. For example, learning opportunities, career exploration, and roll in that was started to honor the memory
in “Plants, Animals, use current technology within the Industrial and of Landon Gran (2001-2019), a SPHS student
Pizza and You”, our Agricultural classrooms. The current course who passed away unexpectedly in a farming
intro to agriculture offerings in these departments are, Automo- accident. Landon was very active in the FFA
The Plants, Animals, Pizza, and You class harvested the lettuce from course, students tive, Welding, Small Engines, Woodworking, chapter. This event is open to the public. Cars,
their hydroponic growing systems. The school’s kitchen staff prepared assembled hydroponic building Trades which partners with Habitat Trucks, and Motorcycles enter and compete for
and served the lettuce on the salad bar for lunch. growing systems and for Humanity, Plants, Animals, Pizza and You a trophy in their divisions. In addition to the car
Jasmine Witty, Agriculture Science Teacher planted buttercrunch (Intro to Ag course), Wildlife and Natural competition, there is also a raffle drawing and
Saint Peter High School lettuce. They managed these systems during resources, Animal Science, Plant Science, and meal available.
quarter one and were able to harvest their
One of the goals of the department is to
more!
The Myra J. Hermel Agri-Science lettuce in the second week of November. The FFA is a large part of this department. create strong partnerships within the commu-
Academy and FFA Chapter (of Saint Peter High harvested lettuce was offered to students on the Eight FFA members recently attended the nity. These partnerships are critical to providing
School) moved to its current location in the fall salad bar during lunch. This class is currently National FFA convention in Indianapolis, a well-rounded, current, and effective learning
of 2017. growing cherry tomatoes which will be also Indiana. Students had the opportunity to attend environment for our students.
The program oversees a 22-acre farm used in the cafeteria during lunch upon harvest- FFA general sessions and tour several locations
field, an FFA Garden located at the Nicollet ing. such as a farm equipment assembly plant, an
County Fairgrounds, the ‘Saints bus’ Green- In addition to the agricultural side, we Amish community, and a koi farm.
house, and an apple orchard located just outside also have a great Industrial Technology facil- The St.Peter FFA Chapter hosts many www.stpeterschools.org
the SPHS west entrance. Each of these facilities ity. Some highlights of this area include events throughout the year. Our most popular

N O R T H D A K O TA S TAT E U N I V E R S I T Y

HUNDREDS OF CAREERS,
LIMITLESS POSSIBILITIES

• Hands-on learning • State-of-the-art facilities
• 11 to 1 student-faculty ratio • Scholarships

Learn more: www.ndsu.edu/agriculture/academics
COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, FOOD SYSTEMS, AND NATURAL RESOURCES