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Yippppeeeee Friday!Good Friday to all! What a lovely day it is. Rain and all! I haven't felt this good in quite a while and just want to share my mood. Silly I know but I gotta get them while I can. LOL I am planning on repotting some of my seedlings this weekend along with so many other things going on! Just a little about what I am attempting to do here. I would like to share it so I can get some feedback hopefully. Maybe I should just start a thread. Hmm.....what to do?????? Well, I'll start here and see what happens. Okay.....I work at a local Treatment Center for Adolscents with Drug, Alcohol and Behavior problems. I have done my homework and have presented a program for the Residential Units to begin doing some flower gardening. It has been approved. There would be three gardens 5'x8' and one of them would be mostly vegetables. That unit is long term kids that would actually get to see the fruit of their work. I'm getting ready to till the ground so we can start planting the second week in May. I think this would be good. The flowers would mostly be annuals since they pop up pretty early and the kids could actually put them in the barrels we have around the building. I have started the seeds and they are coming up very quickly here inside. Most of the kids are pretty excited about this and it sure makes me excited to get started myself!!! This is going to be fun. I hope anyway. I can only take one unit out at a time, 5 kids per one staff. One of our units is a girls unit and they can only go out when the boys are not there. This may pose a challenging situation but I'm sure we'll work it out. I hope I'm not taking on too much here. We'll see I suppose. Any feed back would be appreciated! This blog entry has been viewed 352 times
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I think you're doing a very important job there, and it sounds very planned and organized. I believe in you, you can do this.
What great work you are doing. These kids need someone like you and it's so nice that you can take the time to grow things with them. I think they will get great satisfaction out of growing plants/flowers. Best of luck and if you can we'd like pics of the gardens.
Thanks guys! I think they will really get a kick out of this. I do spend a lot of time with them outside of work and they do enjoy any extra activity. I really hope this goes well. I'll take some pictures and post them!
What a great project to get underway and I just know that the kids will enjoy 'playing in the dirt' as much as we all do. I would love to see their faces when they harvest their first crop of veggies. Good luck with the gardens - they're going to be fantastic!!! Login or register to leave a comment. |
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