By Lynn Monty • Free Press Staff Writer • June 24, 2009
After working as a physical education teacher for 30 years, Susan Adams of Underhill decided to retire and take up gardening. She took a Master Gardening course at the University of Vermont this winter and is sprucing up the Deborah Rawson Memorial Library with the help of Underhill ID School students. This is the first year the library will be a Master Gardening site.
The third- and fourth-graders in Tracy Walker and Pam Bloch’s classes planted a vegetable garden for the local food shelf at the library June 1. Students implemented a composting program at the school last year as a fourth grade initiative to promote leadership. They started with one composter for snack trash and have now filled four composters that will be used for the garden at the library.
“We thought it would be fun because the school is adjacent to the library and this really connects with their science unit,” Adams said.
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