Fogarty students participated in Earth Day events on Monday which featured cleaning up the school by picking up trash, the planting of two flowering pear trees, planting a salsa garden, planting a pizza garden, a butterfly garden, making bird feeders and planting other edible and non-edible plants.
In honor of all the hard work, a pizza party will be held when school starts using the ingredients from the garden. Pumpkins, gourds and watermelons were planted to be used during the Fall Festival.
Many schools have become aware of the multiple benefits of school gardening for students, teachers, schools and communities. School gardens offer educational benefits, hands-on learning, environmental stewardship and connection with nature, school pride and sneaks in some nutrition education as well. School gardens can take any form from a large outdoor garden to small container gardens located in the classroom. The benefits are readily available to all, so go and plant that seed.
Participants include: Fogarty Elementary and Guthrie Public Schools, Logan County Health Department Healthy Living Program, Logan County Cooperative Extension, Lowes, Stouts Greenhouse, Guthrie Forestry Board and the Logan County Master Gardener program.
The Logan County Healthy Living Program is a grantee of the Oklahoma Tobacco Settlement Endowment Trust serving Logan County and promoting effective policies and programs that promote tobacco free environments and healthy food and physical activity opportunities. For more information about the Healthy Living Program contact the Logan County Health Department County at 405-282-3485.
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