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CAREER TECHNICAL EDUCATION
The Career and Technical Education Department of Agriculture, Food and Natural Resources Pathway is a four-year place-based program at Furr High School. All Students of the pathway hold membership of Future Farmers of America, a national career and technical student organization. Students study in a scope of sequence of courses their 9th-12th grade year. As members of Future Farmers of America, every student will maintain a portfolio of records.
Courses of study: Year 1: Principles of Agriculture Year 2: Wildlife, Fisheries, and Ecology Management Year 3: Forestry and Woodland Ecosystems Year 4: Scientific Research and Design
Certifications Offered: OSHA 30-Hour Training for General Industry
PARTNERSHIPS
Supervised
Agricultural Experiences
Students engage in place-based learning revolving around environmental justice issues through the study of food sovereignty, permaculture, fish and wildlife, conservation, and sustainable ecosystems.
Herman Brown Park
The park is a unique 700+ acre bottomland forest, across the street from Furr High School, serves as our outdoor classroom. Students can encounter various types of wildlife such as deer, ducks, herons, hawks, turtles, frogs and butterflies. The park has various features where students will be able to enrich and engage in their career field experiences during and after school hours, such as a fishing pond, hiking trails, recreation, wildlife, and waterways flowing throughout the park. Students have served as stewards of conservation through the removal of 700+ lbs of trash from the trails and waterways, removal of invasive species of plants and trees affecting the fishing pond ecology, planting of hundreds of pine trees and native milkweed for Monarch conservation.
Community Garden
and Fruit Orchard
Established in 2016, built by Furr HS, community and Houston Parks. The half acre urban eco hub, sits across the campus at Herman Brown Park, a 700+ acre bottomland forest. Students experiment with regenerative methods of food production, permaculture and wildlife conservation projects.
Furr High School Green Spaces
School Fruit Tree Forest
Our campus is home to a newly painted fruit tree forest, established in the fall of 2018 by students with over 100+ trees and a variety from nuts to citrus, berries and other fruits.
School Campus Gardens
Weekly students maintain outdoor classroom spaces. With over 100+ circle gardens, students are assigned in groups and practice organic food production throughout the school year.
FFA EXOTICS
Students who have a strong passion to pursue the study of exotics are able to to engage with a variety of animals on campus. Reptiles: Texas rat snake, bearded dragons, boxed turtle. Salamander/Geckos: axolotl, leopard/crested geckos. Fish: Koi and mosquito.
