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Chair proposes field trip to Greenhouse Venture education center opening this fall
Summary
The chair suggested a spring field trip to Greenhouse Venture, a 3.7-acre urban-agriculture demonstration with a 9,300 sq. ft. education center slated to open this fall; members expressed interest in touring the facility.
Chair Jeannie Klettner outlined a potential spring field trip to Greenhouse Venture, an urban-agriculture and bioscience education site developed along a highway corridor and described in the meeting materials as a 3.7-acre project with a new 9,300-square-foot education center opening this fall. Klettner said the site was created in response to a 2015 Federal Highway Administration directive encouraging pollinator-friendly practices in landscape design.
Commission members expressed interest in the field trip as a way to see mature pocket-prairie and native-plant installations and learn how curricula and demonstration gardens are delivered for elementary students. Klettner said she would contact the site to check tour availability and report back to the commission with dates and capacity for a spring visit.
