Article: Growing young minds: Meridith-Dunbar garden aims to improve
students’ nutrition BY JOEL VALLEY | TELEGRAM STAFF Nov 25, 2019
Dennette Gardner, a professional school counselor and family engagement coordinator at Meridith-Dunbar Early Childhood Academy, has a passion for gardening — and the possible educational…“Most kids this age don’t understand the farm to table process and so for them to actually experience what it looks like is just amazing and incredibly fun to watch,” she said. Gardner also has cultivated a relationship with the Bell County Master Gardeners from Texas A&M’s AgriLife Blackland Research and Extension Center, and emphasized the importance they have played in teaching, designing and planting. “We needed a mentor because we were learning by making mistakes but thought it would be nice to speed up that learning curve,” Gardner said. “So we’ve had a wonderful relationship with the Bell County gardeners and consider them really good friends now.”
BCMGA Mission Statement
The Bell County Master Gardeners Association assists the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Service in providing high quality, relevant, research-based horticultural education and service to the residents of Bell County and the state of Texas through outreach, teaching, and demonstration projects. Read More