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tell me what you think. Any suggestions you have would be appreciated.
Thanks.

What a great start! Having the children take "ownership" of their own plots, along with help, advice, and lots of encouragement from you seems like a good, motivating combination.

The botanical garden associated with my local university has a childrens' vegie garden area, and the produce goes to the Food Bank. The program has been very successful.

The National Gardening Association used to give gardening grants to schools working to set up gardening curricula in the classroom. You might check www.garden.org to see if they have info. you could use or financial help.

You might also consider getting into raising worms. Their vermicompost contains plant growth hormones, and the beneficial bacteria and fungi help the plants and retard diseases. The kids might get a kick out of feeding them food scraps from home and scrap paper. For more info, check www.wormdigest.org/ for related books and their Worm Forum to help answer questions.

It's great that you're doing this - all the best!

Terrific! You are very much part of the solution! Please contact me at ecologicalsgardens@shaw.ca and let me know how we can help you, if at all. We certainly would like to donate something for your project, our Seed Planter Thing perhaps? Let us know and congratulations on doing something very worthwhile!

John H. Immink
http://ecologicalsgardens.com/kidsgardens.htm

Thanks for promoting vermicomposting for children; I think all the time when I'm working with my worm habitat what fun a child would think this is. My granddaughter is 13 months old & I hope by spring that she'll be big enough to join me in the garden in some meaningful way, to begin learning from her grammy, just as I did from mine.

Thank you for your kind offer. I have sent an e-mail directly to you.

We are very excited about our progam and, I am glad to see that there are others out there with the same good intentions.

thanks for including this website I've wanted more info on worms for some time but didn't have the time to search it out.