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Junior Garden: Our Outdoor Classroom...
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Love being outside all summer and in the Garden? Why not join us in the Junior Teaching Garden, once a week for an hour, with your child or grandchild! Together you will share amazing moments planting lots of wonderful vegetables and flowers in very your own garden plot. Every week you'll anticipate the ultimate moment when a seed becomes a radish, a tomato plant provides those big juicy tomatoes that you have grown together. Our garden is an outdoor classroom -- a live exhibit of so much that nature provides. An appreciation, an awareness and respect for the natural world, is an integral part of this hands on program. Gardens teach meaningful work -- so much to do and observe each season. Children cooperate on real tasks with tangible and tasty outcomes. As thoughts of warm summer days come to mind, remember the Oakville Horticultural Society's Teaching Garden. It could be the one of a kind gardening experience you've been looking for. Program Details: Location: 1100 Cornwall Road, just behind the Municipal Greenhouse. When: The program is held on Tuesdays from 4:15 to 5:15 during May, June and July. May and June are key planting months. Special nature presentations are also scheduled for all three months. Cost: Participation per family, per plot is $25 for the season. Age: Children must be between 6 to 9 years old. There is a limit of one adult with two appropriately aged children per family per plot. Children must be accompanied by an adult for the duration of the program. Each family is responsible for the care of their garden, including weekly watering and weeding. Find out more about how you and your child/grandchild can participate in this unique program by contacting us at: Oakville Horticultural Society email us at juniors@oakvillehort.org or linda.tock@sympatico.ca  See you in the Junior Garden!