The Junior Gardeners of Squantum recently took a field trip to the home of Donna Richardson and Ed Swartz, where these blossoming gardeners learned how to plant sunflower seeds in peat pots, and received guidance for how and when to transplant the sunflowers to their own home gardens. As these young green thumbs toured Donna and Ed’s garden, they asked fabulous questions about the variety of plants, the years of work to create the garden, and they applied those math skills considering the square footage of the garden. The children enjoyed a contest to search for and locate the many animal characters in the garden, and in the midst of the visit discovered evidence of a slithery garden visitor…the shed skin of a garter snake, which provided a bonus learning opportunity.

Donna and Ed report that, “everyone enjoyed the experience and we are delighted to add they are a great group of kids and we thoroughly enjoyed their visit.”

About the Squantum School Junior Gardeners Club
The Squantum School Junior Gardeners Club is organized by the Seaside Gardeners of Squantum to encourage the appreciation of gardening, landscape and floral design, and awareness of environmental concerns. Amongst other activities, the Club works with the students to plant gardens at the school. In the past the Club has received the Junior Gardening Award from the Garden Club Federation of Massachusetts and the National Council of State Garden Clubs, Inc. in recognition of distinguished service, youth activities, and junior work.

Learn more about the Seaside Gardeners of Squantum.