"Green” instruction at Alamance Community College will be enhanced by the use of land on the college’s main campus for horticulture and biology labs.
A field on one end of the campus is a floodplain that borders the Haw River.
Justin Snyder, head of the horticulture department, and biology instructor David Sigmon will work together to plant shrubs, grasses and possibly wetland trees that are native to the area.
Both instructors’ programs include outdoor labs for students and the wetland area will help expand what is offered outdoors.
“We haven’t had a moist vegetation area on campus,” Sigmon said. “(This) will show our students what a restored wetland area looks like.”
The area will also be used by instructors in the college’s new sustainable technologies program to teach about solar and wind energy.
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