The purpose of The EPES Garden Club is to stimulate the knowledge and love of gardening both indoors and outdoors. Gardeners learn to sow seeds, tend gardens, and harvest fruits, vegetables, and flowers. Activities include but are not limited to: giving classrooms seed starting kits each Spring, maintaining the Pollinator Garden at EPES, tending 3 plots in the EV Community Garden, maintaining hydroponics in EP schools, & maintaining plots in the HS CTE Greenhouse.
Grades: 3rd - 5th
Sponsor: Erinn Wharton
Meeting Dates & Times: Tuesdays 3:30 - 4:30, 9/2, 9/9 (trip), 9/16, 9/23 (trip), 9/30, 10/7, 10/14, 4/21, 4/28, 5/5, 5/12, 5/19
Meeting Location: Meet near the middle school swing set and walk to the garden together.
Start Date: September 2nd
Enrollment: Fall Enrollment, space is limited. Applications turned in by Wednesday 8/27 to the front office or apply online. If you are accepted into the club, Mrs Wharton will send you a confirmation
