Second MarketKids Workshop!

MarketKids had its second workshop weekend last weekend, May 3rd. A huge thank you to Tess Pangle and the other girls from Sigma Alpha Agricultural Sorority for all of your hard work organizing and executing a great MarketKids lesson about bugs in the garden.

Tess and her fellow sorority sisters helped the kids create their very own bug books with pictures and inquiring questions that spurred small group discussion about harmful and beneficial bugs in the garden. The kids learned about aphids, ladybugs, honeybees, praying mantis', grasshoppers, butterflies, snails, and caterpillars. At the end of the lesson they were given handmade bug boxes complete with instructions for the kids to make bug 'hotels' (habitats) for beneficial bugs in the garden: http://gardentherapy.ca/build-a-bug-hotel/

In other news, MarketKids has received additional funding from a grant from The Community Foundation of the New River Valley for $680.00!

Stay tuned for an upcoming post on developments in the MarketKids Hunger Relief Garden at the Blacksburg Nature Center!!!