Meneley Elementary School students participate in Thursday's Giant Students Farmers Market at the Capital. Photo special to The R-C by Joyce Hollister
The third annual Green Our Planet’s Northern Nevada Giant Student Farmers Market was held Thursday in front of the Nevada Legislature, with students cheering as transactions were completed.
Empire Elementary School’s Green Biz students prepared well, overcoming a leak with a hydroponics growing system, fifth graders Malia Munos and Kylie Settle said.
Empire’s group was selling basil, candles, suncatchers, magnets and soaps, Settle and Munos said.
“I love this experience because it's my first time being here, and looking around and seeing other people and how hard they worked to sell and make this is just an amazing experience, and I love it,” she said.
Eagle Valley Middle School sixth graders Aaidyn McIntosh and Sawyer Coots, along with their peers, manned a table with herbs, candles, pins and face tattoos between $1 and $5. Coots said she enjoyed that the profits will help the club purchase better gardening equipment.
All 15 students from Pershing County’s Imlay Elementary School and coordinator Jennifer Osborn traveled more than two hours for the market, Principal Bill Harvey said. Imlay is in its first year of its Green Biz program and hopes to continue.
“For these guys being in a rural school, they don’t always get the opportunity to engage with a bigger community,” Harvey said. “So this was a very awesome opportunity for them. They’ve been very motivated. It’s nice for them to see the end product as they’ve been working on this for a while.”