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Willmar High School senior Aaron Privette, 18, puts some greens on his hamburger Monday during lunch in the school cafeteria. The greens came from the Willmar Community Greenhouse located at the MinnWest Technology Campus. Operated by the school district and staffed partly by volunteer students, the greenhouse is providing fresh vegetables and salad greens for the district's food service program. (Tribune photo by Gary Miller)

Fresh salad greens even in winter for Willmar, Minn., students (video)

WILLMAR -- Hannah Bateman makes herself a chef's salad for lunch nearly every day in the Willmar Senior High cafeteria. Often, the salad includes bright, fresh greens from the school...

extra / news / local / education Sat, Mar 24, 2012 - 7:00am

Willmar Community Greenhouse Produces Greens For School

Fresh salad greens being grown at the Willmar Community Greenhouse located on the MinnWest Campus are now being served to students at the Willmar High School.

life / news Fri, Mar 23, 2012 - 3:13pm

Derek Leuze, 7, of Willmar waters the garden Monday at the Willmar Community Greenhouse on theMinnWest Technology Campus as Ryan Salzer, 7, of Willmar follows behind waiting for his turn with the water can. The two young gardeners are from the Stay n' Play Daycare Center on the campus. They were helping with Ashley Thorpe's 4-H project at the greenhouse. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Waiting for his turn

news / local / community Tue, Jul 20, 2010 - 12:00am

Student-run greenhouse open for another season

WILLMAR -- The hanging baskets and the petunias are blooming brightly at the FFA greenhouse in Renville. Geranium blooms are starting to peek out. The greenhouse operated by the Renville...

business / news / local / region Tue, Apr 27, 2010 - 12:00am

Commentary: Amendments to climate change bill were necessary

This year, when the House began to write climate change legislation, it was clear to me that if I didn't get involved in this process, the needs of agriculture, forestry...

opinion / commentary Tue, Jul 21, 2009 - 12:00am

Commentary: Amendments to climate change bill were necessary

This year, when the House began to write climate change legislation, it was clear to me that if I didn't get involved in this process, the needs of agriculture, forestry...

opinion / commentary Tue, Jul 21, 2009 - 12:00am

Chuck Waibel did his homework, researching the literature before coming up with a design for a low cost greenhouse from which to produce greens and other vegetables as a community supported agriculture venture. Last year's heating bill was under $75. (Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny)

Garden Goddess Enterprises a growing success

Producing greens and vegetables by the bushel basket through the course of a Minnesota winter -- and paying no more than $75 in heating bills to do it -- is...

extra / region / community Sat, Jul 04, 2009 - 12:34am

Colter White, a member of the Youth Energy Summit team, tends to cabbage Tuesday in the greenhouse on the Minnesota West Technology campus. Many of the vegetables grown in the greenhouse now will be transplanted to a tilled garden outside and raised for sale at Becker Market. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

Willmar YES students to host webcast telethon for greenhouse project

Classrooms are OK, but there's really no better place for learning than a greenhouse. Just ask the Youth Energy Summit students at the Willmar Senior High School, who are about...

news / local Thu, May 07, 2009 - 12:00am

Ag instructor Darrel Refsland and his FFA students at Renville County West have moved the 212 Garden Center to a location in Renville near Java Junction and are now getting it ready for an April 20 opening. Students Eric Mertens, from left, Kelly Degree and Cory Eischens brave the mud Thursday to work on the project. Tribune photo by Tom Cherveny

It's a muddy job, sure sign of spring

news / region / local / news Fri, Mar 20, 2009 - 12:00am

Alicia Allred, from left, David Frey and Aaron Larson check out the winter produce Sunday at the Willmar Community Greenhouse on the MinnWest Technology Campus during an open house. Allred and Larson are Willmar High School students involved with the Willmar Public School Youth Energy Summit Team. Frey is a volunteer for the project who contributed a mylar infra red barrier used in potato chip bags that lines part of the wall in the greenhouse. Tribune photo by Ron Adams

Checking progress

news / local / community / news Mon, Feb 23, 2009 - 12:00am

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