BATON ROUGE — There's a new greenhouse at Northeast High School for its agriculture program.

"When I found out that we were getting a new greenhouse. I said that's one of the best things that could've happened here at Northeast," senior Tahj Turner said.

Turner said he enrolled in the class during his junior year.

"I realized during my 11th grade year that I'm going to further this education and go into the veterinarian field. And when I met Miss Terrell, she said this would be the place for me, and ever since then, I've been with Miss Terrell and the Ag," Turner said.

The old greenhouse was not equipped to handle a large growing scale. It did not have running water or climate control.

"The greenhouse we had last year it was basically a storage. It was full of bugs, lumber, old tables

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