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Roots
and Shoots, an Intergenerational Garden
Roots
and Shoots was established in 1985 and its garden has
become a model for how schoolchildren and seniors can
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Every week, third graders from Walter Hays Elementary
School walk to the garden, where they are met by
their senior volunteer mentors. Together, the children
and volunteers spend almost an hour and a half together
planting, nurturing, and harvesting a garden full
of edibles and colorful flowers. Children and their
mentors plant, weed, water, and harvest for their
own snacks and the local food banks.
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Each
session in the garden includes a lesson about
plants, their cycles and the other critters found
in a garden. The students work on a related project
and then spend time working in the garden.
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One
group prepares a snack, mostly of produce from the
garden. As the children eat their snacks, they share
things they experienced or found in the garden.
In the process, both students and volunteers develop
lasting friendships.
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