Georgetown’s “Golf Cart Guy” Is Fixing GHS’s Broken Greenhouse on His Own Time – Here’s How Georgetown Can Help

Mike Grant is trading his summer break for a greenhouse — and he’s asking Georgetown to help him pull it off.

If you’ve ever dropped off or picked up a kid at Georgetown High School, you probably know Mike Grant. Not by name, maybe, but by the golf cart.

Every school day, Grant is the familiar face keeping GHS students safe. But this summer, while most of us are enjoying the break, he’s doing something that has nothing to do with his job description, and everything to do with the students he serves.

Grant is spending his summer vacation inside the GHS Ag Greenhouse, working to restore a facility that has quietly failed Georgetown’s FFA students for years. Broken climate control and irrigation systems have left the greenhouse unusable until spring, every single year, costing students the prime growing season and the hands-on agricultural experience the program is built around.

For an FFA program, that’s not a small thing. Agriculture students depend on early germination windows to grow, learn, compete, and build real-world skills that follow them long after graduation. Every fall they couldn’t use that greenhouse was a season of experience they’ll never get back.

Grant decided to do something about it. On his own time. On his own initiative. Over his summer vacation.

His goal is to have the climate control system and full Raindrip irrigation system modernized and operational by December, so that this school year, for the first time in years, GHS FFA students can walk into a greenhouse that actually works.

All He Needs Is a Little Help From Georgetown

Grant has launched a GoFundMe with a $3,000 goal to cover parts and supplies. There are two simple ways to support him:

1. Donate to the GoFundMe. Every dollar goes directly toward getting the greenhouse operational for students. No overhead, no fluff, just parts, tools, and soil.

2. Pick up a supply item. Grant has a Lowe’s wish list posted on the GoFundMe page. If buying a bag of potting soil or a piece of irrigation tubing is more your speed, that counts just as much. Have extra garden supplies at home? He’ll take those too, just send him a message through the page.

This is one Georgetown neighbor pouring his summer into something bigger than himself. The least we can do is help him finish it.