Park View Farms - WPHS Agriculture

Fun Farm Fact: It's International . We celebrate our young men and women who study agriculture in middle and high school and college. They are future farmers, veterinarians, ag teachers, biochemists, and so much more!

We are absolutely thrilled for this budding partnership! These kids do amazing work and what better way to learn than by doing!

Check out the Public Market in downtown Wheeling for our tomatoes and peppers and soon to be eggs!!!

Eggs are now available in the Wheeling Park High School Store for faculty only until our girls ramp up production!

Keep an eye out for more products coming in the future!

It’s an exciting time to be in WPHS Agriculture!!!

Our first marketable dozen! The girls are still working out some kinks in the process and others are just being lazy still…but in reality egg production is correlated to the length of light in a day. Since these are all going to be new layers, it is entirely possible that these girls might not all lay until the light gets longer again. However, we can look into some artificial light to hopefully promote egg production in the winter months!

Our first dozen eggs from our Agriculture program!! We hope to be selling these in the Overlook soon.
Love our chicks! ❤️🐥💙

We are so egg-cited to announce our very first egg has arrived!

It is not uncommon for the eggs from new layers to be on the smaller side like this one is!

The hen that laid this egg is a Blue Rock, and we have three of this breed. So hopefully the other two will start laying tomorrow! We will do a breed spotlight on them tomorrow!

Congrats to our very own Trinity Kimmins!!

Congratulations to our 2023 Ohio County Country Fair Royalty!

Queen: Emma Wade
Princess: Trinity Kimmins

All of our contestants did an amazing job!

See you at the fair!

We are trying something new this fall!

In the block (2 period) Horticulture class, we have designed it to be a classroom and lab type setting! In the classroom we are learning the meat and potatoes of the plants and then in the lab we are growing some vegetables in the greenhouse!

These pictures are of our 85 cucumber 🥒 plants and their development!!!

It’s and our Science of Ag class has spent the last month working on our chicken coop and getting the outdoor chicken run ready for the girls!

Today was the first full day that all the girls were able to be out in the run! We have 25 pullets consisting of seven different breeds! We are expecting eggs at almost anytime from these ladies and will be selling them at the school and other locations!

Check out some of the pictures of our girls!

Japeth is selling his steer and Brayden is selling his hog at the West Alexander Fair! These are the first two Wheeling Park FFA members to have a market animal project at the fair! Help support them by placing a bid on their animals!

Tomorrow at 11 am. Hogs, Lambs, Steers.

Check out some of the students from the Ag program at the West Alexander Fair! Multiple posts on Wheeling Park FFA’s page! Including info on the market animal sale starting at 10am tomorrow!

Today, students participated in an a-MAIZE-ing experience! We shucked corn that will be served at schools across the county on Thursday! This was the first time shucking corn for some students while others had a little more experience! Multiple CTE programs and classes were involved in this project including Patriot Cafe students and classes from Mr Headley and Mr Bugaj!

Can’t wait to see how it tastes!

Congrats to Japeth and Kyler!

Current student Kyler Cox and future student Bodie Cox are at the West Virginia Dairy Show getting ready to exhibit at 10am today! You can watch live here on Facebook on the WV State Dairy Cattle Show page! Link is in the original post!

Be sure to check in and watch the show live on West Virginia Dairy Cattle Show page starting at 10AM!

Devin will be missed by all of us.

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Deadline to enter is today!!!

This would be an awesome opportunity for those interested in vet school!

Check out this awesome opportunity for high schoolers interested in becoming a vet! Big public health plus -- students will get a chance to learn about biosecurity when working with animals to prevent the spread of zoonotic infections. Register now at go.osu.edu/vetcamp

We are looking for any 5 gallon buckets or similar sized containers for a summer planting project! If anyone has some they would like to donate, please let us know! They do not need to be in perfect condition! Cracks or holes are ok as long as the plastic is not too brittle!

Thank you!

This will be our last week of being open at Wheeling Park High School! We will be open from 3pm to 4pm Monday the 22nd-Friday the 26th unless an appointment is made!

💐There are very few baskets left. $17

🌷 4.5 in pots of geraniums, coleuses, and various other plants and flowers are available. $2.50

🌸 Dahlias of different colors are $2 each

🍅🫑 Varieties of tomatoes and peppers are available $2.50 for six plants!

We can’t keep it COOP-ed up much longer! We have an EGG-citing announcement to share later today and it’s nothing to BAWK about! Can you guess what it is? 😜

We took a field trip today to tour the WVU Davis College of Agriculture, Natural Resources and Design!!!

Ten students from Mr. Bloomfield’s classes and four from the WPHS Green Club with Ms. Hempelmann along with three chaperones went and were able to see the WVU Greenhouse, Natural History Museum, and tour the WVU Animal Science Farm!!

We also were able to have lunch with three Animal Science professors. Dr. Dailey, Dr. Minch, and Dr. Bowdridge explained the versatility of this major and how it can be used to prepare someone for a variety of careers!

A special guest, Ryder, the service dog, was also in attendance for lunch!

A big thank you to WVU, the greenhouse managers, the animal science farm manager, and recruiter, Lauren Johnston for setting everything up for us!

The greenhouse is open this week from 3-5!!!

🌷Baskets are running low!

🍅 and 🫑 still available in multiple varieties!

🌸 coleus, geraniums, dahlias and several other individual plants up for grabs!

Several of Park View Farms students have been competing and performing this week with the band, choir, and orchestra!

They’re probably happy to get away from the greenhouse more than going to Cedar Point!!

Our Music Department has been competing this weekend at Cedar Point's Music in the Parks.
Here's the run down on ALL of their awards!! Amazing.
WPHS MUSIC DEPARTMENT AWARDS
-1st Place HS Concert Band
-1st Place Jazz Band
-1st Place HS Mixed Choir
-1st Place HS Mixer Choir 2
-1st Place HS Treble Choir
-1st Place HS Orchestra
-Outstanding Jazz Soloist - Brendan Loy (guitar)
-Outstanding Accompaniment - James Kawasaki (dumbek drum)
-Overall HS Choir
-Overall HS Orchestra

We will be on WTRF7 News tonight!!! Thank you for visiting us! We are open from 3-6pm the rest of this week!

💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐💐We are open May 1st from 3-6pm!!💐💐

🌸We have hanging baskets with a variety of flowers in them.

🌺We have coleuses, begonias, geraniums, and various trailing plants in 4 1/2 inch pots

🌷We have 13” planters with various plants

🪴 We have large aloe plants

🍅We have tomatoes of various types

🫑We have multiple types of peppers from jalapeños to sweet banana

💐💐💐Come all week from 3-6pm💐💐💐

Our very own Zack Brady for signing to serve in the Air Force today! Thank you for your decision to serve our country, Zack!!!

🎉🎉🎉We will be open May 1st!!!🎉🎉🎉

Here is a quick preview of some of our offerings this year!!

💐We have hanging baskets with a variety of flowers

💐A lot of 4 1/2 in pots with single plants

💐 We have a wide variety of peppers and tomatoes in six packs.

Hours and prices will be posted soon!

Congratulations to our buddies at the Patriot Garage!!!

We got to host some students from Madison Elementary in the greenhouse today! Students were able to plant their choice of tomato, cucumber, mini bell peppers, or beans to take home to watch grow and hopefully harvest later in the summer!!!

Let’s go India and the rest our CTE students competing in the SkillsUSA competition today!

Will you all please send the best vibes to our senior designer India today! She’s competing in State T-shirt competition!!! At 5:30a a bunch of our CTE students are heading to Fairmont to compete. We have students competing in a number of categories but India is our only design girl this year 💁🏼‍♀️

An update from the greenhouse! We have been hard at work planting and hanging baskets! May will be here before we know it!

Good luck to our friends in the ProStart Restaurant Program, the Patriot Cafe!!!

Just some of the many colors you will see in about two months for our sale!!! Can you identify each one??

The Spotted Lanternfly is an invasive species that has no natural predator in our area! Do whatever you can to prevent and report the sightings of these insects!

This week's weather is warming up! Get outside and hunt Spotted Lanternfly egg masses. When you find them crush them! Use an old bank card, small rolling pin or putty knife.

Come visit our students and learn about our ag program!!!

Students and staff members at Wheeling Park High School want potential students and their parents to See What It’s All About!!!

All About Park and the Wheeling Park High School CTE Open House will be held from 5-8 p.m. on Feb. 23 at Wheeling Park High School. Students with last names beginning with A-L are invited to attend from 5-6:30 p.m., and students with last names beginning with M-Z are invited to attend 6:30-8 p.m. All About Park and the CTE Open House provide an opportunity for Ohio County Schools eighth graders, private and parochial school students and parents to see the amazing opportunities available to students of Wheeling Park High School. Park’s excellent academic, career and technical, fine and performing arts programs and athletic and extracurricular events will be on display during the event.

The expansive new Innovative Learning Center will also be on display for incoming and potential students. The ILC was unveiled on Jan. 23, and it features collaborative spaces that include makerspaces and flexible seating with the goal of blending academic and 21st century skills in an environment that promotes creativity, collaboration and communication. The ILC at Wheeling Park is the culmination of innovation projects that began in the school system’s elementary schools and continued into the middle schools. All of the skills that students learned in the lower grades can now be utilized by students in the ILC at Wheeling Park High School.

Principal Meredith Dailer said All About Park and the CTE Open House is an exciting introduction into the exceptional opportunities available to students of Wheeling Park High School.

“Wheeling Park High is where students discover their passion,” she said. “The new Innovative Learning Center is another example of how Park continues to expand to meet the need of its students. We’re proud of what we have to offer our students, and we want families and the community to see it firsthand. There’s something for everyone at Wheeling Park High School. We provide our students with the best programs in West Virginia.”

All About Park is held in conjunction with “Career and Technical Education Month.” Park’s career and tech students will be giving demonstrations in the their simulated workplaces during the event. If you have any questions regarding the event, contact Ohio County Schools Communications Coordinator Gabe Wells at 304-243-0493.