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Garden Project

Funded by Hy-Vee Mainstreet through their One Step grant program. Cared for by Flickinger Learning Center, Pearl City Outreach, and a group of Volunteer Master Gardeners headed by Nancy Dew.

2018 Growing Season

Group of kids holding plants
The children visited the garden center at Hy-Vee Mainstreet, and returned with their chosen plants
transplanting strawberries
They also helped to transplant the strawberries
girl planting
Staff and volunteers taught the children how to plant.
Children gardening
Staff members and volunteers help the children learn to care for the plants.

 

 

Our children learn so much through the  gardening Program. We are very grateful for everyone that helps make it a success!

planting seeds
Some of our plants were started with seeds. Planting from seeds takes faith and patience.
kids gathering around garden
Everyone is excited to see what happens next!
Children weeding raised bed
It paid off! Now the children get to learn about tending and weeding while we wait for harvest.
Children gardening
It was an especially hot summer, but the kids persevered!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2016 Growing Season

Additional Bed Boxes for 2016

June 20

Results of weeding and watering, June 30

 

2015 Growing Season

Planting seeds in young minds and the earth.

View of garden, July 3.

 

Close-ups of 2 of the garden plots

 

The Children’s Garden and Cooking Project, a cooperative project of Flickinger Learning Center and the Hy-Vee One Step grant program, began in 2013.

FLC is able to continue the program with the support of Hy-Vee dietitian Nancy Dew. Ms. Dew also assists in guiding the cooking lessons that come with the harvest.

During the spring session, kindergarten through 5th grade students at FLC who finish their homework are invited to participate in the garden. The students prepare the seed beds and select the crops that interest them to complement the basic crops. A relaxed, natural, directed discussion of the ecology and biology of gardening flows during this preparation, leading many of the students to better understand where food comes from. Seeds and plants that can be planted this early are added to the seed beds during this phase.

In 2015, approximately 27 varieties of plants, including the decorative flowers, were chosen for the project.

After the school year ends, volunteer families come to the garden 2 times a week for weeding, cultivating and harvesting mature crops. Each gardening session gives a new opportunity to explore how gardens and plants grow.

 

At the end of the growing season, the final harvest will go into a group project of stone soup. The preparation and eating of the soup will feature a discussion of the book that inspires the soup.

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Flickinger Learning Center
413 Mulberry Avenue
Muscatine, IA 52761
(563) 288-9000

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