Smith Vocational breaks ground on new horticulture building

in Northampton Smith vocational and agricultural High School broke ground on its new planned horiculture building Smith vokes Horticulture program teaches students Arbor culture skills landscaping and Greenhouse management the previous Horticulture building was housed in the school's forestry education program and burned down in 2022 when a lawn mower's exhaust started a fire yeah yesterday was a great opportunity to to come together as a school Community it's been just over two years uh since the devastating fire that uh demolished most of our Horticulture building so it was a chance for us to come together as a school Community as a larger community and think a lot of state agencies that really stepped up over the last two years and have given us the funding necessary to build this new building with help from Community member donations and several state grants the school is looking forward to cutting the ribbon on a finished building next summer