Gardening with Child Care Children

We did it!  We won the Welch’s Harvest Grant from Welch’s, as part of a program with Scholastic and the National Gardening Association.  We received $500 worth of gardening equipment and curriculum to start raised beds at St. Bernard’s Child Care in Omaha.  We are working with two horticulturists and a master gardener from the UNL Extension Office, and myself, and RD.  The kids are going to raise veggies this summer, and learn that food comes from somewhere besides the grocery store.  We have started some seeds and have the beds in place.  Last Friday we filled most of the beds with the help of the First graders.  They had a grand time swooping dirt around.  This week we hope to get the rest of the dirt in and plant some of our in ground seeds!  Stay tuned for our progress!