An Initiative of WCTE and CPB

An Initiative of WCTE and CPB

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Monday, 14 June 2010 20:00

As with a whole lot of things, the lessons of Living Green are best learned when started early on. Several years ago Parkview Elementary teacher Beverly Hall started a butterfly garden at the Cookeville school’s playground—not only to beautify the area but as a learning tool. From this sprang the idea of enlarging the garden to include vegetables.

With the help of the local Master Gardeners, Beverly went to work on the educational component of her garden and what she developed was, “Seedlings,” a collaboration of elementary school-aged children who are interested in gardening and in its impact on the world around them.


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