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Frio Canyon Garden Club members (LtoR) Georgia Wood, Don Walzel, Sandra Hodge, Mimi Hardwick, Jim Reed and Jack Hardwick (not pictured... because she took the picture...Mary Clanton)

Last fall the Frio Canyon Garden Club set out on a Community Service Project.  Mimi Hardwick had an idea to start a garden with the 2^nd thru 5^th grades at Leakey ISD. The school will build raised garden beds and the Garden Club will instruct the school children on how to prepare the soil, sow seeds, plants and harvest the crops. Earlier this week members from the club met at the LISD campus to discuss the location, timing and other details.

In some schools, gardens are being integrated into the educational curriculum to teach children not only about plants, nature, and the outdoors, but other subjects as well. Gardens can teach children about history, economics, poetry, and math, but are still primarily used for science studies.

School gardens can provide an environment in which students can learn to work with teachers, parents and neighborhood resident volunteers while growing plants and learning the relationship between people, plants and wildlife. The lessons that are taught at the garden site are limited only by one’s creativity. School Gardens are a special kind of learning center. Like libraries, they need responsible and knowledgeable people to do all the jobs necessary to maintain them as functional places in which children will learn. You can find more information at:

http://aggie-horticulture.tamu.edu/kindergarden/child/school