Bedners Greenhouse Jr. Green Thumbs

2009 Jr. Green Thumbs Club

* Six gardening classes were held every other Wednesday, beginning June 17th, for ages 5-11.

* Classes were 50 minutes long; start times were 10:00 am or 11:00 am.

* Parents/caregivers browsed the Greenhouse or sat and relaxed at our picnic table during class.

* Children maintained and harvested a vegetable garden through the summer.

* Other class topics included Composting, Making Strawberry Jam, the Butterfly Life Cycle, Butterfly Gardens, Earthworms, and Cooking with Your Harvested Vegetables.

* Classes were planned and taught by Karen Moore, K-6 Certified Teacher. The Assistant Teacher was Amanda Delach.

*Click here for photos from the Summer 2008.

"Usually children spend more time in the garden than anybody else. It is where they learn about the world, because they can be in it unsupervised, yet protected. Some gardeners will remember from their own earliest recollections that no one sees the garden as vividly, or cares about it as passionately, as the child who grows up in it." - Carol Williams, Bringing a Garden to Life