02-05-2025
Brookside students get their hands dirty in the garden with CCE
SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY, N.Y. (WIVT/WBGH) – Cornell Cooperative Extension was teaching elementary students how to get their hands dirty, and start their own garden.
CCE met with several classrooms at Susquehanna Valley's Brookside Elementary to give a lesson on growing plants. Two years ago, CCE helped build the wooden garden beds that the classes are using.
The initiative is part of CE's farm-to-school program, focused on teaching students where our food comes from. Before planting, each student got to try a bite of fresh spinach and arugula.A 4th grader, Robert Carangelo, had never gardened before, but says he had a blast.
'And I've never tried gardening before. So, when I go home, I'm going to ask my family to start a garden. Probably potatoes, strawberries, mangos, and apples,' Carangelo said.
The students were taught how to properly space the plants around one foot apart. Every student dug their own hole and planted it themselves.
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Brookside students get their hands dirty in the garden with CCE
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