MONROE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - Lee Junior High got a new addition today, a gardening plot full of soon-to-be vegetables and herbs.
Kerry Heafner of the Louisiana Purchase Gardens and Zoo is hoping to spread the love of growing your own fruits and vegetables and he's starting with students at Lee Junior High.
"If baseball is the nation's favorite past time, gardening is the second favorite pastime," says Heafner, "it can teach you lessons from everything in basic science, basic biology, to economics can be taught with a garden."
Science lessons as well as life lessons are what Bessie Bowers is hoping to teach with this garden. She expects her special needs class of five to learn patience and responsibility.
"When they graduate from high school, they have to go to different areas of life and they can't all go to college, but however they can work in a workforce," says Bessie Bowers, "I figured today, they could work in a garden growing different products."
With funding from Modern Woodmen of North Louisiana, the garden project is starting to take shape. Heafner says if the students take care of the garden as instructed, they will have a full harvest later this fall. Students are really looking forward to what their garden may produce and hope it tastes great.
For more information or to start a garden at your school, contact Modern Woodmen Fraternal Financial at labest.mwa@gmail.com.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 10:10 AM EDT2013-05-21 14:10:14 GMT
MOORE, Ok. (KNOE 8 News) - President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs
MOORE, Ok. (KNOE 8 News) - President Barack Obama has declared a major disaster in Oklahoma as the state recovers from a massive tornado that ripped through the Oklahoma City suburbs
Tuesday, May 21 2013 12:32 AM EDT2013-05-21 04:32:49 GMT
WATERPROOF, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A school fight lands more than a dozen students in jail back in April. Monday, parents are deciding to challenge a zero-tolerance rule.
WATERPROOF, La. (KNOE 8 News) - A school fight lands more than a dozen students in jail back in April. Monday, parents are deciding to challenge a zero-tolerance rule.
Friday, May 17 2013 12:09 PM EDT2013-05-17 16:09:18 GMT
FARMERVILLE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - The family of a Farmerville teen who died at football practice last week says it is overwhelmed by the community's gratitude.
FARMERVILLE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - The family of a Farmerville teen who died at football practice last week says it is overwhelmed by the community's gratitude.
Tuesday, May 21 2013 8:16 AM EDT2013-05-21 12:16:28 GMT
INDEPENDENCE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - State police say a 10-year-old girl died after she was ejected from a car in a crash on La. Highway 1054 northeast of Independence in Tangipahoa Parish.
INDEPENDENCE, La. (KNOE 8 News) - State police say a 10-year-old girl died after she was ejected from a car in a crash on La. Highway 1054 northeast of Independence in Tangipahoa Parish.
