Help expand the Hough Elementary school learning gardens at the fall community work party!

With support from the Hough Foundation, the school is ready to expand their school garden to more raised beds for outdoor, hands-on learning, right outside their classroom windows.

Join us for a community weekend work party as we prepare the space for our new student garden. Together, we will roil up our sleeves to level the ground and clear out the weeds in preparation for installing raised garden beds for a thriving future.

• Dates: Saturday, September 13 and Sunday September 14

• What to bring: Garden Gloves, Water Bottle and Helping Hands

• Please email Jill Campbell for more information,

  jcampbell@houghfoundation.org 360-901-0132

• No experience necessary and all are welcome. Children need to be accompanied by adults at all times.

  What are the Hough Elementary Learning Gardens?

  Learn more: Students have the opportunity to dig, plant, explore and create with outdoor inspiration. Under the guidance of a professional Horticultural Therapist, wee will use monthly themes (ie: September~ leaves, October~ pumpkins, bringing in studies on birds, wildlife etc.) all while caring for the Hough gardens. Open to 1st-5th grade students, 1 day a week. Directed by Mandi Atkinson. Thursdays 2:30-4pm or Fridays 2:30-4pm

  Check out this video to learn more and see this amazing program in action:

  https://houghfoundation.org/gallery/horticulture-garden-club/