Kids learn to grow tasty garden treats
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June 7, 2017
GROWING SNACKS – Tending the La Conner School Garden yields tasty rewards for students in a special gardening and cooking enrichment program. Here from left, Olivia Short, Mason Magill, Kanon Burnside, Abner Liddell, Malorie Drake, Kendall Lee and Rachel Sobczak care for their crops. – Photo by Judy Booth
The La Conner School Garden now provides more than 30 elementary age kids with an after school Gardening and Cooking Enrichment Class.
They spend one afternoon a week of planting, pulling weeds, harvesting and then prepare wholesome food for themselves.
Left unattended eight years ago, the overgrown school garden was resurrected by a group of motivated volunteers supported by the La Conner Elementary School PTSA, the La Conner School District, Insight Tree Care, Ace Hardware Anacortes, Christiansen’s Nursery, Charlie’s Greenhouse, Watered Roots Design, The Nell Thorn Waterfront Bistro and Bar,...
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