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Master Gardeners: Growing Healthy Kids Summer Camp | Home And Garden

08/06/2022 3:11 AM
Myrtle G. Corbo

Immediately after a two-12 months hiatus, we hope you decide on VCMGA’s Summer time Camp as just one of your children’s exciting, discovering, innovative actions this summer time. VCMGA Summer Camp will be for discovering and understanding about character, working out creativeness with fascinating jobs and conference new friends. We have all missed these functions so it will be exciting and refreshing to get pleasure from them again with your small children.

The Expanding Healthful Young ones Summer time Camp will be from 8:30 a.m. to noon June 20-24 at Victoria Academic Gardens, 282 Bachelor Drive, in the vicinity of the Victoria Airport. Registration is from May well 10 as a result of June 10. The charge for every camper is $60. We have space for 60 campers.







Growing Healthy Kids Summer Camp

There is something new to discover about getting healthful every working day.






Registration forms are readily available on our web site, www.vcmga.org or at the Victoria County AgriLife Extension Office, 361-575-4581, 529 Waco Circle at the Victoria Regional Airport. Issues? Contact 361-938-1556. Finished applications and fees ought to be acquired by registration deadline of June 10.

Target: CROPS (Composting, Recycle, Organics, Propagation, Six-Legged Bugs)

  • Monday:
    • Master Gardener Cindy Brewer will examine the ins/outs and dos/don’ts of composting. Campers will get an knowing of the relevance of composting in making the foodstuff we try to eat and enriching the crops that surround us.
  • Action:
    • Touring the gardens with their crew leaders. Craft: Learn Gardener Pat Koenig and her group will immediate campers in making stepping stones for them selves.
  • Tuesday:
    • Christy Youker, govt director of Continue to keep Victoria Gorgeous, will go over recycling and the great importance of this subject and how recycling influences absolutely everyone now and in the long run.
  • Exercise:
    • Grasp Gardener Debbie Krueger will information campers as they visit the VEG Butterfly Haven and study all about butterflies. Craft: Mini back garden in a recycled cup will be directed by Master Gardeners Betty Tovar and Marcia Kauffman.
  • Wednesday:
    • Javier Aguilar, HEB produce manager, will share his information and expertise about organic fruits and vegetables. Craft: Portray rocks as bees and ladybugs to use with protected a tic-tac-toe board. Action: Bee keeper Emory Powsitski will teach and motivate campers to study and comprehend bees.
  • Thursday:
    • Grasp Gardeners Joy Reed and Norene Perry will demonstrate how to propagate cuttings from other vegetation and begin new crops from seeds.
  • Exercise:
    • Recycled paper rolls will be applied as starter pots for planting. Craft: Fake stained glass images will be facilitated by Master Gardener Pat Koenig and her team.
  • Friday:
    • Steven Biles, Calhoun County extension agent, will introduce built-in pest management ideas. This session will raise campers’ information and knowledge about 6-legged insects and bugs. Campers will discover about the superior, poor and hideous bugs and how they can positively or negatively have an impact on gardens and crops.
  • Action:
    • Insect scavenger hunt in the backyard garden. Craft: End any incomplete craft projects from the 7 days or take part in a tic-tac-toe event utilizing their developed bugs, bees and board. The campers can also select to play bug bingo and other enjoyment games. The finale will be the awards and farewell application.

    Victoria County Grasp Gardeners look ahead to acquiring young children at the summer camp. Our target is for the campers to create information of CROPS, arrive up with imaginative strategies and make great recollections.







    Growing Healthy Kids Summer Camp

    Youngsters camp features educational periods for children 6-12 yrs previous.






    Victoria County Master Gardeners are volunteers properly trained by the Texas A&M AgriLife Extension Support. The target of the master gardener application is to share horticultural-linked information through the neighborhood.

    If you are interested in learning extra, the upcoming Master Gardener Course will start out in January 2023. You can abide by us on Facebook and on our website, vcmga.org.

    The grasp gardeners invite you to encounter the attractiveness of character at Victoria Instructional Gardens, affectionately referred to as VEG. The gardens are no cost and open 24/7. Team tours can be scheduled.

    The Gardeners’ Dirt is composed by associates of the Victoria County Master Gardener Affiliation, an instructional outreach of Texas A&M AgriLife Extension – Victoria County. Mail your inquiries in care of the Advocate, P.O. Box 1518, Victoria, TX 77901.