Garden club at Gary high school cultivates love of growing, nutrition education

College students started by pouring over seed catalogs, deciding on greens with intriguing names like blonde cucumber and purple basil. Seedlings have been began in small cups positioned beneath a develop mild earlier than being transferred to a borrowed greenhouse.

Within the early spring, about 15 college students within the backyard membership constructed picket beds and set to work planting.

“They might by no means normally have that publicity (to farming and gardening),” Bodie-Fernandez stated. “They adore it as soon as they become involved.”

The scholars additionally participated in what Bodie-Fernandez referred to as “vitamin lessons disguised as cooking lessons” twice per week. The backyard membership launched college students to new meals, taught them about wholesome consuming and uncovered them to the agricultural job discipline. 

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