Public school, church plant seeds of learning

Tom Heinen:

As part of nearby Trinity Presbyterian Church's adopt-a-school partnership with Townsend Street School, about 50 fifth-grade students from the public school are growing flowers and vegetables in eight raised planting beds and learning about science and nature from church volunteers in the garden and in their classrooms. Last fall, the class "put the garden to bed" by pulling vegetation and laying straw.

"A lot of these kids don't have experience in tending anything, in watching something grow," said Trudy Holyst, a church member and research chemist at the Blood Center of Wisconsin who goes into the two fifth-grade classrooms about twice a month to teach basic botany and scientific observation. "They've done a really good job. Almost all the seeds we started in the classroom have germinated."

Posted by Jim Zellmer at May 18, 2008 2:01 PM
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