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Digging In The Dirt At Kraybill Mennonite School
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Ask a sixth-grade student at Kraybill Mennonite School how long it takes a beet seed to germinate, and she can tell you. Chances are, every student at Kraybill can tell you something specific about gardening thanks to a collaboration between parent volunteers, teachers and The Edible Classroom, a Washington Boro-based organization. Kraybill installed a school garden earlier this year, and every day students get outside to get their hands dirty while learning. The Kraybill garden came together after a chance meeting between Grace Julian,
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who runs The Edible Classroom with Beth Horst, and a parent at Kraybill. They started talking about gardening, and the parent mentioned that Kraybill would love to have a garden. It just so happened that The Edible Classroom was looking for a space to create a community garden, since its other spaces in the county are school-specific. Although this garden is located at Kraybill, it will be the site of a summer camp open to the community this summer. Kraybill principal MJ Smith loved the idea of a school garden, and soon parent volunteer Aja Sides was on board. It turned out both Julian and Sides are certified Penn State Extension Master Gardeners, and they quickly bonded over their shared love of plants. Sides’ husband built raised garden beds in front of the school; families donated watering cans, hoses and tools; and within weeks, the garden was ready for students. “When this whole idea first started, I wasn’t quite sure how it was going to go, but everything fell right into place,” Sides remarked. “We’ve had no hiccups. That
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Students in sixth, seventh and eighth grades at Kraybill Mennonite School work in the school garden.
just signals that this garden is providing an opportunity to promote healthy eating, but was meant to be.” Led by The Edible Class- it’s also providing hands-on room staff, students will be science,” she shared. Students will enjoy the planting various crops including radishes, peas, beets, kale, rewards of their efforts when tomatoes, corn, peppers and they harvest the early produce squash. Pollinator gardens later this month and have an will be planted at the corners opportunity to taste a salad of the garden to attract bees made from what they planted. “There is something very and butterflies. For seventh-grader Nathan healing about being outside, Shertzer, the garden offers a digging in the dirt,” Smith chance to do something he said. “It’s a wonderful way to really loves. “It’s fun to watch help our kids connect to the the plants grow and to taste Earth.” The Edible Classroom will the food (we harvest),” he said, adding that he hopes to con- hold a summer camp at the tinue to help with the garden Kraybill garden, 598 Kraybill Church Road, Mount Joy, on over the summer. Abby Keller, a sixth-grader, Monday, July 5, through noted that gardening makes Friday, July 9, from 9 a.m. her happy. “I like the daily to noon. For more informaroutine. I like planting, water- tion on the camp or on The ing, watching the seeds grow Edible Classroom, visit into plants and then enjoying www.theedibleclassroom.org. the product,” she stated. The garden is providing students with more than meets the eye. “They are experiencing gardening as much more than just a little seed,” Sides remarked. “Every person should have the opportunity to see the positive effects of a garden, to get their hands dirty and to see what comes out of your hard work.” As principal, Smith is excited to see all the ways Second-grade students prethe garden is impacting pare the soil for the garden at her students. “The garden Kraybill Mennonite School.
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Garden coordinator Aja Sides plants perennials in the pollinator garden at Kraybill Mennonite School.
