We prepare for the fair!

It was quite an adventure last week at our gardening sessions! Jen had her groups making Watermelon smoothies. The blender was going, kids were cutting and juice was everywhere! Nothing beats a smoothie on a hot day. A few feet away Ruth had another group cutting up the yellow zucchini from the garden. This group was steaming zucchini and learning how to use it. The youth really seem to enjoy their sessions with Jen and Ruth!

The youth always have plenty of produce to pick from the garden each week. All the vegetables get weighed once they are picked and we are keeping track of how much produce we have grown. It will be exciting to add everything up at the end of the season. Everyone is doing a great job of keeping the weeds out and making sure everything is watered.

Yesterday we had a smaller group of kids than normal. Ruth and Jen couldn't be with us so we had all the kids in the garden picking vegetables, weighing, and logging totals. Master Gardeners, Pam and Shirley, are with us each week and they explain lots of gardening tips to the kids. The youth are able to take home lots of information to use in their own gardens.

The rest of our time yesterday was spent hanging posters and pictures of the kids and activities that we have done throughout the summer. We hope everyone will stop by to see the youth who have been part of our Junior Master Gardener program. Please look at the garden as well. Hopefully you will know someone who would like to be part of this wonderful program!!

Enjoy the Mower County Fair!!