A Junior Agricultural Stewardship Program is being offered at the Bruce Botanical Food Gardens in Ripley.
Children aged 6 to 12 will help the garden's project to save two heirloom bean varieties.
Executive Director Lynne Taylor says the program will be focused on teaching the children the circular cycle - earth to plant to seed and back to earth.
"Not only preparing the ground to grow them in, but planting the seeds, maintaining the plants throughout the season, harvesting the seeds, saving the seeds."
It's a free program which will run weekly throughout the growing season.
Taylor says it will be limited to about 20 children.
While participants will be welcome at the gardens anytime, the program will involved one actual meeting a week where they will do a specific activity related to the seed project.
The Bruce Botanical Food Gardens is also looking for high school students to help out with this new program as part of their volunteer hours commitment.
Taylor says the Gardens has become a member of Stewardship Network of Ontario, which validates the Junior Agricultural Stewardship Program.
They hope to have information and application forms on-line at the BBFG website soon - www.bbfg.org.
Interested people can also reach Taylor by email - ltaylor@bbfg.org or by phone - 519-386-9957.
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Executive Director Lynne Taylor calls it the circular cycle.
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Lynne Taylor is the Garden's Executive Director.
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Taylor says the free, weekly program will have the children involved in the full cycle of earth to plant to seed and back to earth.
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