Lake County Conservation District helps Boys and Girls Club build garden
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LAKE COUNTY – Lake County Conservation District helped the Boys and Girls Club get their community garden ready for the planting season.
Sarah Klaus, Big Sky Watershed Corps Member, and Zach Lenning, Natural Resource Conservations at the conservation district have been working on installing efficient irrigation to the 30 garden beds at the clubhouse.
“This garden will be a wonderful tool to promote community learning around gardening, soil health, and pollinators,” said Klaus. “We hope to get the kids really psyched about this small little ecosystem they can create, and maybe, they will bring these skills home to a garden of their own.”
Klaus and Breton Holmwood, MSU extension agent, will be kicking off the garden club at the Boys and Girls Club with a lesson series throughout the summer and helping kids care for the garden (when the club is able to reopen).
Within the 30 garden beds, there will be all sorts of fruits, vegetables and herbs for the Boys and Girls Club to use in cooking classes. The garden will also showcase some of LCCD’s pollinator-seed mixes to promote natural and healthy pollination and education about pollinators and their importance to plants. As summer approaches, we are rooting for the success of the Boys and Girls Club community garden.
