Dublin FFA hosting first-ever plant sale at its new greenhouse. Think fresh herbs, fruit and flowers.

Dublin FFA student Jena Sorrells shows off a couple of hanging baskets inside the high school's new greenhouse. Photos/Sophie Hayhurst

By SARA VANDEN BERGE

Dublin High School’s FFA is hosting its first-ever plant sale April 12-13 at the high school’s greenhouse, located next to the ag building/welding shop.

The sale will be open from 8 a.m. – 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday.

“Dublin ISD just built a new, automated commercial greenhouse that is completely run by the students,” FFA advisor Sophie Hayhurst told Beneath the Surface News.

“It’s an impressive facility. The kids installed all of the irrigation and everything that people will see at the plant sale is student work.”

The sale will include fresh herbs, eight tomato varieties, strawberries, nine different peppers, native plants, hanging baskets and flowers.

Think gerbera daisy, geraniums, begonias, vinca, impatiens and salvia.

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Cash is the preferred method of payment, but checks and credit cards will also be accepted.

Dublin FFA students are also busy raising tilapia in the new 2,000-gallon aquaponics system.

They plan to sell organic tilapia filets harvested by the students at next year’s plant sale.