NHS athletes pitching pumpkins
Sports and agriculture have long had a close association in this country.
Professional baseball teams have large farm systems where they cultivate young talent. The original basketball hoop was a peach basket tacked up above a barn door and the traditional orange balls often are referred to as pumpkins.
The Nipomo High School sports program is taking a page from that history book with its pumpkin patch fundraiser at Holloway’s Christmas Tree Farm.cctv camera The school’s baseball, softball,wholesalersblog girls water polo and girls basketball teams have planted 7 acres of pumpkins they hope to sell this holiday season to raise money for their programs.
This is the second year the baseball team has farmed land at Holloway’s, according to varsity coach John Stevens.
“Last year, it allowed us to get new uniforms, windscreens, new infield dirt and baseballs,” Stevens explained. “All of the (sports) programs now are fee-based. This allowed us to get away from some of that cost last year.”
For a team that was wearing jerseys as old as the school, which opened in 2002,wholesalersblogs the new uniforms were long overdue. Stevens said with new uniforms costing $150 each and practice baseballs $60 a dozen — the team can go through up to five dozen balls a week — the association with Carl Holloway has been a grand slam.
Pumpkins are really nothing new to Holloway’s farm. The family farmed them regularly throughout the 1980s, but the summer and fall crop just didn’t pencil out to a profit.
“Pumpkins are not viable for a businessman to do. We are doing this for the schools,” said Holloway, whose family has been in the Christmas tree business on Oakglen Avenue in Nipomo for nearly 50 years. “With the kids and the free labor, it becomes a viable, money-making product.”
Holloway’s son, Cole, plays both water polo and baseball at Nipomo High. Last year, Cole and some teammates planted enough pumpkins to earn the team around $10,american lighting000. This year, Carl Holloway supervised the planting of 7 acres of pumpkins and the Titans are hoping to score a lot more money.
“Putting in the effort,” said Kenton Garl, a senior catcher who hit .400 for the Titans last year. “It’s nice that we’re coming out here and doing it for the baseball team.fingerprinter”
Sports and agriculture have long had a close association in this country.
Professional baseball teams have large farm systems where they cultivate young talent. The original basketball hoop was a peach basket tacked up above a barn door and the traditional orange balls often are referred to as pumpkins.
The Nipomo High School sports program is taking a page from that history book with its pumpkin patch fundraiser at Holloway’s Christmas Tree Farm.cctv camera The school’s baseball, softball,wholesalersblog girls water polo and girls basketball teams have planted 7 acres of pumpkins they hope to sell this holiday season to raise money for their programs.
This is the second year the baseball team has farmed land at Holloway’s, according to varsity coach John Stevens.
“Last year, it allowed us to get new uniforms, windscreens, new infield dirt and baseballs,” Stevens explained. “All of the (sports) programs now are fee-based. This allowed us to get away from some of that cost last year.”
For a team that was wearing jerseys as old as the school, which opened in 2002,wholesalersblogs the new uniforms were long overdue. Stevens said with new uniforms costing $150 each and practice baseballs $60 a dozen — the team can go through up to five dozen balls a week — the association with Carl Holloway has been a grand slam.
Pumpkins are really nothing new to Holloway’s farm. The family farmed them regularly throughout the 1980s, but the summer and fall crop just didn’t pencil out to a profit.
“Pumpkins are not viable for a businessman to do. We are doing this for the schools,” said Holloway, whose family has been in the Christmas tree business on Oakglen Avenue in Nipomo for nearly 50 years. “With the kids and the free labor, it becomes a viable, money-making product.”
Holloway’s son, Cole, plays both water polo and baseball at Nipomo High. Last year, Cole and some teammates planted enough pumpkins to earn the team around $10,american lighting000. This year, Carl Holloway supervised the planting of 7 acres of pumpkins and the Titans are hoping to score a lot more money.
“Putting in the effort,” said Kenton Garl, a senior catcher who hit .400 for the Titans last year. “It’s nice that we’re coming out here and doing it for the baseball team.fingerprinter”
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