Wasco High School is getting a new agricultural farm, funded by a bond measure Wasco voters passed in 2024, with construction slated for completion by the start of the 2027-28 school year.
The new farm will replace the school’s existing ag facility, which Principal Russel Prado and ag teacher Andrew Morales say is in need of updates. One feature Morales is most excited about is a classroom built directly on the farm grounds.
“We have great facilities, but just stuff needs to be updated,” said Morales. “One thing that excites me the most about this new school farm is gonna be the classroom that’s gonna be on the actual, uh, farm grounds, um, because you get to learn in the classroom firsthand experience with the lecture, um, set the groundwork, and then you get to go out and actually do it.”…