As I remember the conversation that morning at the Children's House of Weld County Montessori School (http://www.childrenshousewc.com/), Susan the director, stopped me as I was dropping off my youngest son. She said that she had heard something about a person in the Frederick area going to start a community garden. When she heard about it, Susan decided that she should ask me if I knew anything....apparently she knows me well:) And so began the connection between Brigit's Bounty & the Children's House of Weld.
For those of you that aren't familiar with this school...if you have young children you should become familiar with it. I admit to being one of the most obsessive, controlling, freak parents when it comes to the care of my children. I love this school. The boys love this school. I think you would be hard pressed to find any child who goes there to say that they didn't want to go back tomorrow.
Anyways, I met with Susan and Sherry about how we could make this work so that the kids at the school could be involved and a plan was created.
This is the plan:
The children would start seeds in the class & watch them grow.
The children would participate in a special lesson from a staff member at the "Children's Peace Garden" out of Boulder, the lesson was "Edible Parts of the Plant" http://www.growinggardens.org/english/programs/youth/peace/classroomvisits.html
The school will be provided with two raised beds at Brigit's Bounty that they can grow what ever they want in.
The children will come to the garden weekly throughout the summer to take care of their garden & watch the process from seed.
The children will harvest all of their own vegetables & take them back to school to prepare & eat them.
I am so excited about having the kids involved. As this has further developed, the kids are also going to assist with feeding the birds, watering some of the sunflowers, etc.
Children's House put the first plants into the ground! Yeah:)
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