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Lanier Charter Career Academy receives grant, plans for farmers market

Olivia Whitter, left, and Cara Spear inspect a blooming succulent at the horticulture greenhouse at Lanier Charter Career Academy. The two are in Shay Grant’s fifth-period horticulture class. - photo by NAT GURLEY

0310grow 1 — Olivia Whitter, left, and Cara Spear inspect a blooming succulent at the horticulture greenhouse at Lanier Charter Career Academy. The two are in Shay Grant’s fifth-period horticulture class. - photo by NAT GURLEY

Lanier Charter Career Academy is already home to a fine dining restaurant, gift store, coffee shop and conference center, among other businesses. What more could the Hall County school possibly offer? “The terminology I like to use is, we want kids to get their hands dirty,” Assistant Principal Jeff Jenkins said.