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WC High School vo-ag program opens news storefront Monday

The Whitley County High School Hydro-Gardens is officially open for business with a brand-new storefront. Operated entirely by the WCHS vo-ag program, Hydro-Gardens celebrated its grand opening Monday. The new storefront adjoins a 2,000 square foot greenhouse facility that is set...

WCHS student grown lettuce headed to The Wrigley

Thanks to their high tech hydroponic growing system in the greenhouse, the Whitley County High School agriculture department has been harvesting 72 plants of lettuce each week since mid-January. Now they have a market for that produce in the form of a downtown Corbin restaurant....
Posted On 08 Apr 2022

WCHS agriculture students use hydroponic system to grow first of many new crops of lettuce

If you grew up in southeastern Kentucky, then there is a pretty good chance that at some point in your life you have worked in a garden. Come spring the ground was tilled. You dug a hole, put down some fertilizer and planted a seed. Then a few weeks later, depending on what you...
Posted On 23 Jan 2022