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according to sophomore Mason Shafranek. He sees the success that GEBN has experienced, but he’s not satis ed. When he moves into the executive producer role next year, he’ll be hungry to keep growing. “Moving forward into next year, we have a lot of new stu coming for the program. I think we can continue to up our quality and [get to the] tiptop. I think we keep pushing forward and make some big progress next year,” Shafranek said.

way for the plants, designed to water plants at a particular time.

“We built the automatic watering system so the students don’t have to come in water every day, on the weekends, and on vacations,” Howell said.

e greenhouse’s roof is damaged, meaning the plants don’t get natural light. So the students built stands for grow lights to get enough light to the plants.

ey also release ladybugs into the greenhouse to eat the pests. ey use no pesticides or other harsh chemicals.

“We use worm juice waste products,” Howell said. “ e worm feces is good fertilizer. We are working on

Now many of the underclassmen will take larger roles as upperclassmen, while still having years of time to contribute and continue to build the award-winning program. e seniors are sad to leave, but have nothing but the utmost condence in the underclassmen to hit the ground running and continue to enjoy success for years to come.

“I’m super con dent in this group,” senior Carlie Trujillo-Strange said. “I know I’m leaving with a really good play-by-play broadcaster in Carly Evans [and Zoe Wittler] as well. Everyone has done so well in guring it out, and I know we’re leaving this with a good team.” getting worms to sell so people can use them for shing or put in their gardens.” e greenhouse will be open May 13 in anticipation of Mother’s Day, from 8:00 a.m. to noon. ere will be a sign outside with greenhouse hours.

When the student sells the plants, they give instructions on how to plant and water them and eventually will have information cards to go with them.

“It’s a way for us to get back to the community and for the kids to take ownership in something about their education and maybe get some memories,” Howell said.

Howell said she expects they will

Trujillo-Strange was the rst member of the network to conduct oncourt interviews on the game versus Harrison, a favorite memory she’ll carry with her into the future.

“ e future of GEBN is extraordinarily bright,” Marsing said. “We have underclassmen leadership across the board. ree of our four producers for next year are going to be juniors; they aren’t even seniors be open from 9:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. for the rest of the school year. e kids will be going on summer break so the greenhouse hours will be slightly di erent. But they plan on having regular hours over the summer and will have plants constantly for sale. Watch their Facebook page for updates. next year. We’ve really bene ted from a couple seniors especially who have been with us since last year when we were just trying to gure out what outlet plugs into where. But the future is super bright and we’re excited about the evolution of the program.”

Visit the greenhouse Facebook page Devils’ Garden FLHS Greenhouse. It shows pictures of the plants and what’s in stock, where to place an order, and what time to come and pick it up, and they will have it ready for you. ere is also a link to their website on Facebook.

To place an order or call 303-8577100.

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