"This greenhouse will unlock potential in all of our students through vocational, educational, emotional, and physical channels. Research shows greenhouses provide unique healing environments that can't be duplicated in clinical settings. Our students have been motivated through summer gardening; now those experiences will be expanded year round."
- Mary Lewis, teacher at the Anne Carlsen Center

 
Anne Carlsen Center students enjoy the touch of live greenery.


Gardening at the Center is a year-round activity. During warm-weather months, the students enjoy working outdoors as well as indoors.


Students help to harvest what they produce.


Students learn that water is important to all living things.

    
Anne Center students take pride in the health of their greenhouse plants.

 

 

 

Paying it forward in North Dakota

Greenhouse at the Anne Carlsen Center
in Jamestown

The Anne Carlsen Center provides residential, therapeutic, and educational services for children and young adults with medical challenges. In recognition of all the Anne Center does to improve the lives of others, we dedicated financial support toward constructing a greenhouse on the Anne Center campus.

Social stewardship: The Anne Center greenhouse is a gathering place where students share lessons on everything from science to mathematics to language skills. It also connects students with the marketplace, as they harvest, market, and sell what they produce.

Environmental stewardship: By tending the greenhouse plants-watering, fertilizing, pruning, repotting, harvesting-students gain firsthand knowledge of the importance of quality soil, air, and water to all growing things. 

Economic stewardship: The Anne Center is able to keep down energy costs in the greenhouse thanks to proper insulation, a super-efficient air-source heat pump, and a thermal-storage underfloor heating system that creates a heat reservoir at night when energy is cheapest.


A full and lively greenhouse demonstrates the hardwork and commtiment of the Anne Center students.


Staff enjoy sharing the beauty of nature with the students.


Caring for plants brings smiles to students' faces.


Students make salsa from the vegetables that they harvest, and they market that salsa to the Jamestown area.