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- To offer imaginative “gardening kits” designed to spark an interest in plants and inspire them to embark on a lifelong adventure in gardening.
- To provide opportunities for families to work together to discover the joys and wonder that gardening can bring into their lives.
- To offer resources to support teachers in their efforts to teach their students about plants, growing food, and other lessons that can be fun to learn in a garden.
There are five different types of kits available.
Herbs Kit.
Includes seeds for planting herbs, planting guide, colorful 5”x 7” nutrition information cards, information about CGCI and ideas for creating recycled planting containers. Herbs are easy to replant into appropriate containers for kitchens or outdoors. Everything is wrapped up and ready to be used to start an indoor herb garden at home.
Green Machine Kit.
Includes a variety of lettuce/greens seeds, colorful 5”x 7” information cards, including ideas for creating recycled planting containers. Everything is wrapped up and ready to be used to start a fresh salad garden.
Watch-Us-Grow Kit. (appropriate for preschoolers and kindergarten)
Includes bean seeds (Fabraceae family) and radish seeds (Brassicaceae family) that make up two separate projects; one to create a “bean necklace” and one to make a “Magic Sprout Box.” The kit also includes 5”x 7” information cards, including ideas for creating recycled planting containers. Everything is wrapped up and ready to be used for 3+ years old to watch the seeds sprout.
Plant a Rainbow Kit.
Includes three different seed cards from the following list, depending on the time of year. Seed packets are attached to each card – Beans, Beets, Broccoli, Carrots, Kale, Peas, Radishes, Squash, Sunflower or Tomatoes. These seeds are meant to be grown in a bigger area and don’t like to be transplanted. Illustrated planting guide, colorful 5”x 7” information cards, including ideas for creating recycled planting containers. Everything is wrapped up and ready to be used to start a fresh vegetable garden at home.
Pollinator Paradise Kit:
Includes “Seeds for Butterflies,” or “Seeds for Pollinators”. An illustrated information/instruction leaflet, pollinator masks and an assortment of colorful 5”x 7” information cards, including ideas for creating recycled planting containers. Everything is wrapped up and ready to be used to create an outdoor garden that fosters pollinator habitat.
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Ideas where E.F.G. kits are appropriate…
- Find out if your local library or book store has a reading hour with kids. See how the kits can be integrated into the reading hour; such as a discussion on good bugs in the garden and then request the appropriate number of Pollinator Paradise kits.
- Check out your local Community or Public Gardens to see if they can integrate the kits into a workshop or open house program. A good kit here would be Plant a Rainbow Kit; where kids plant carrots, broccoli and beets.
- Work with your local day care centers explaining Educating Future Gardeners and let them know you would be excited to work with them. Leave an order form/donation form in case the owner would like to place an order.
- Work with your local church with Sunday School. Ask them to integrate the kit into their program. Bring one of each kit for a “show and tell” along with an order form/donation form in case the teacher would like to place an order.
- Same goes for after school programs.