Outreach Spotlight: Camp Week 3 at the YMCA

This week with YMCA campers, we explored edible roots, stems, leaves, flowers, fruits, and seeds by singing a song about the plant parts. Then, we identified the plant parts on a blueberry bush and tasted the seasonal blueberry… Read More

Outreach Spotlight: Camp Week 2 at YMCA

We got our hands dirty with the campers at the Decatur Y this week. Our groups made seed balls to take home and planted their summer vegetable garden and their perennial herb garden!  Timelapse Garden Planting from Jenna… Read More

Outreach Spotlight: Camp Week 1 at the YMCA

This was our first of our weekly visits to the Decatur family YMCA to work with their campers. This week, we learned about Georgia’s local fruits – about the apples that grow in the mountains in the fall… Read More

Outreach Spotlight: YMCA Visit to the Decatur Farmers Market

Then today, the Decatur Y kids came to the market to explore the flowers the bees drink the nectar from (with Wildcraft Flowers), to taste the strawberries (with Mealor Family Farms) and the peaches (with Watsonia Peaches) that… Read More

Outreach Spotlight: YMCA Visit to the Decatur Farmers Market

Each month following a taste test at YMCA, the kids in the after school program take a field trip to come visit the market! On this visit, they got to feed the goats… They tasted strawberry, blackberry, and… Read More

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