FIG Helps Plant Gardens At Lincoln School
WIU professors Dr. Heather McIlvaine-Newsad and Dr. Joel Gruver and FIG helped several teachers at Lincoln School establish container gardens during the warm weather in April.
Dr. Heather McIlvaine-Newsad and students plan their garden.
The students in Mrs. Standley’s and Miss Hentzel’s third grade classes and Mrs. Streit’s first grade class all got to taste carrots and lettuce, mix soil, and plant seeds in container gardens constructed from kiddie-sized plastic swimming pools. FIG provided funds for the pools, seeds and watering cans.
FIG Chair Dan Barclay mixes soil with the students.
Dr. Gruver provided the soil, seeds, and lettuce starts.
The students and Dr. Gruver prepare the garden for planting.
Dr. McIlvaine-Newsad provided seeds, snack carrots and lettuce.
Everyone wants seeds!
The students had a lot of fun and will now get to learn something about what it takes to keep a garden growing. The lettuce, radishes and flowers are all sprouted and thriving. The students will be able to harvest some of those crops before school is out in early June. The carrots are up as well, but they will not be ready to harvest until mid-summer.
