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Perth & District Horticultural Society
P.O. Box 494
Perth, ON
K7H 3G1
Linda Bartlett
President
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The Perth & District Horticultural Society is affiliated with the Ontario Horticultural Association
Our society falls under District 2 of the OHA
JUNIOR GARDENERS
This program was established in 2002 and is very popular in the surrounding schools. Each spring, we approach the area elementary schools to collaborate with them and offer a gardening program geared to Grade 3, which is often a split grade 2/3 or 3/4 class. In 2019, we had six schools participating with a total of 178 students 21 volunteers teaching. This program has been cancelled for 2020 and 2021. We will resume this program again in 2022.
Over the six-week program, we cover gardening techniques, soil types and composting. The students do hands-on activities: planting seeds, potatoes, creating container gardens and flower arrangements.
Each week the children participate in a plant library activity in which they pick out a plant that we provide. They learn about it, make observations and take it home for a week to take care of it. They return it and take a different plant each week. In the sixth week they keep the plant they have.
We are fortunate to have many community sponsors, such as Home Hardware, Canadian Tire, Barnabe’s YIG, Metro, Sweet Pea Florist, Fashion Envy, Inter Alia Images Design, to help support the program.
Many of our members donate time and materials to help this program to flourish. Our dedicated teaching volunteers make this program come alive for the students.
If you would like to be a part of this rewarding effort, please speak to one of the PDHS Board members at our monthly meetings. The Junior Gardeners Program runs for an hour, once a week for six weeks from the beginning of April to mid-May.