Four Decades of Imaginative Children's Gardening!
Gardener News 16 Mount Bethel Road #123 FIRST-CLASS MAIL Warren, NJ 07059 U.S. POSTAGE PAID HILLSBOROUGH, NJ PERMIT NO. 4444 TAKE TAKE GardenerGardener Serving the Agricultural, Gardening and LandscapingNewsNews Communities ONE ONE August, 2012 GARDENERNEWS.COM No. 112 Four decades of imaginative children’s gardening! Tom Castronovo/Photo Gwen Montgomery, Senior Horticultural Program Specialist for the Morris County Park Commission, center, and Laura Jankura, to her right, an Education Assistant for “Branching Out!” help a group of children with watering one of the 72 raised garden plots, and harvesting some fresh produce and flowers from the “Branching Out!” garden at the Frelinghuysen Arboretum in Morris Township, Morris County, New Jersey. celebrates its 40th birthday. What began with a into one of the arboretum’s Pest Management (IPM), By Tom Castronovo “Branching Out!” has taken proposal from The Garden premier youth horticulture examining nature, and as a Executive Editor thousands of young people Club of Morristown to programs. result, they discover the joys of outside and into the garden the Morris County Park Each year, more than eating fresh-harvested produce This August, “Branching where they learn to plant, Commission for a small piece 130 young people from 5 to directly from the garden that Out!” the gardening program harvest, have fun and learn to of land on which to teach 13 years old garden in their they helped grow. for children held at The be future gardening stewards teenagers about gardening has own plots, getting dirty, Beginning on Saturdays in Frelinghuysen Arboretum, and lifetime gardeners. developed over the decades learning about Integrated April through (Cont.
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