Success StoryGardening Bags



Gardening Bags

Author: Connie Downey

Planning Unit: Clay County CES

Major Program: Nutrition and Food Systems General

Outcome: Long-Term Outcome

Clay County Cooperative Extension Service SNAP-Ed (Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program Education) assistant collaborated with the Family Consumer Science agent, the Agricultural agent, and the 4-H agent to put together gardening bags for the Save the Children Big Creek Early Steps group.

The 25 gardening bags included information on gardening, gardening implements, seeds and recipes. The families were appreciative of the gardening bags and the children were engaged in learning about how food is grown. Several of the families stated that they had no idea that their children would enjoy planting and watering the seeds. One family said that their children could not wait till it was time to water the plants while one was excited to watch them grow the other one just thought they was so pretty.  






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