Fern & Geranium Sale
As in the past, The Fern & Geranium Sale
will be held:
at the CCHS Greenhouse
on Monday & Tuesday, April 17th & 18th from 9:00 aM – 2:00 pM each day
At the Village Green Mall on Thursday, April 20th from 8:00 aM – 4:00 pM and on Friday, April 21st from 8:00 aM – 12:00 pM
The Geraniums will be $7 each and the Ferns $15 each
All proceeds were divided between the CCHS Greenhouse Maintenance
and the FGGC’s Helena Schmidt Scholarship Fund.
THE ACCOMPANYING BAKE SALE
Delicious homemade goodies will be offered for sale
at the Village Green Mall on Thursday, April 20, 2023
All proceeds from the Bake Sale benefited the Helena Schmidt Scholarship Fund.
BirdDog Marketing
Stop by the BirdDog Marketing Table at the Village Green Mall on Thursday and Friday, April 20 and 21 and test their samples.
For every test taken the Helena Schmidt Scholarship Fund received $5!
Where the Geraniums come from for the sale:
Greenhouse Management is a class that is taught at Cumberland County High School (CCHS) in the Fall and Spring Semesters. The students grow Poinsettias in the Fall and Geraniums in the Spring.
Educator, Danny Wilson, has been teaching Greenhouse Management for 13 years with the last 7 being at CCHS. The students in the 2 classes of Greenhouse Management are presently tending to the Geraniums. Each student is responsible for 96 plants. The total number of Geraniums planted this year was 4,300. Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays find the students watering the plants. They also “clean” the buds off the plants so that the plant itself can become strong. 3 weeks before the desired sale date the students leave the buds on the plant. That is how they become the beautiful Geraniums that the Fairfield Glade Garden Club sells each year.