Source: Chris Miller, STANLY NEWS & PRESS, 1/18/22


Jennifer Crawford, STEM coach at Oakboro Choice STEM School, received close to $2,000 from Union Power Cooperative’s Bright Ideas Grant late last year to help create an agricultural learning center as well as to update and expand on several of the school’s existing agriculture components. Since its inception a few years ago, Oakboro has already built up much of its agricultural infrastructure, including two greenhouses (one of which was made from 2-liter bottles and bamboo), seven garden beds, an outdoor classroom and a chicken coop.

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