Today starts the Garden Workshop for Children, a four-week fall series that is in partnership with the Lake Havasu Neighborhood Garden and the AZ Health Zone Mohave County Cooperative Extension. The community garden was created in 2018 by New Horizons Center, the not-for-profit company that has actually served Lake Havasu City’s community of developmentally handicapped citizens because 1973.
MCCE’s Program Planner Bree Daugherty says that her program concentrates on developing healthy environments for children and households throughout the neighborhoods of Mohave County. Together with New Horizons’ garden, Daugherty will provide local youth the chance to learn basic gardening skills by utilizing the devoted space.Youth between the
ages of 8 to 11 can dig into a hands-on learning experience in each weekly session. The program will teach participating youth how to identify and gather plants, how to plant seedlings, how to care for plants, the advantages of different plants, together with a host of other abilities under the Junior Master Garden enthusiast curriculum.
“Kids will discover where our food originates from,” Daugherty stated. “They will get to explore the garden as they learn and make brand-new buddies in a real garden setting.”
The very first session starts today at 4 p.m. with workshops lasting for one hour. The workshop continues for the next 3 successive Thursdays on Nov. 3, Nov. 10 and Nov. 17. Daugherty adds that changes to the dates will be made when it comes to inclement weather.There is no cost
to register for the workshops and families are motivated to go to the sessions with their children.”Everybody is welcome to join us,
“Daugherty continued.” Bring your family and enjoy the garden while your kids discover the basics of gardening at your regional community garden.”The Lake Havasu Neighborhood Garden lies at 2095 Moyo Dr. For more details on the workshops or to sign up for a session, contact Bree Daugherty at [email protected].