Thanks
to Healthy Roots and Nelson's True Value in Prairie du Chien, eighteen
raised garden boxes, plus soil and plants were delivered to child
care programs throughout Crawford County! This "Ready Set Grow" project
gives young children hands-on experience growing their own healthy
food. Child care providers attended a training to learn how to
incorporate gardening in a day care setting. Their first project with
children was to create bucket gardens with tomato plants and lettuce
seeds. Now their raised garden beds will have a range of vegetable
plants including kohlrabi, Brussels sprouts and broccoli. Watch for
pictures in upcoming newsletters!
We are so excited
about this project! Healthy Roots is jumping in to expand Farm to School
programming into the local day care setting and is utilizing this
project as a strategy to increase healthy eating options. Our youngest
community members are learning to make important healthy food choices in
such a fun, hands-on way. So Cool!
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