BATH — Bath Middle School students will install a 40-tree apple and pear orchard today to be used as an outdoor classroom and laboratory.
The project — Apple Classroom for Outdoor Research and Education — will offer 70 seventh-graders a two-year learning project in which students are responsible for maintaining all aspects of the orchard, monitoring fruit quality, spring frosts, pests and more. Produce will go to school cafeterias to promote sustainability and health.
Bath city arborist Tom Hoerth and a seventh-grade science and humanities team will help plant the orchard 10:35 to 11:30 a.m. and noon to 1:45 p.m today.
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