Off icialKidsMag.com • MAY & JUNE 2018 • 39
By Dave Woods
Official Kids Mag
Lily Scharnhorst, a student at
Fayetteville, enjoyed her Apple Seeds
experience.
"It was really fun," she said. "I loved
the people teaching it. They were
really nice and helped you understand
what was happening. In the program
they taught us all about food and how
to cook it, cut it and the amount and
proportion of food that's healthy to
eat."
Lily so enjoyed the program, and
making new friends, she encourages
other kids to give it a try.
"I had a bunch of fun," she
explained. "I encourage kids to go.
We got to work on gardening and
to pick from the garden. We learned
some about how they manage the
garden. It was fun to make the recipes
that were healthy, but still tasted
good. It was just lots of fun."
That kind of praise is music to Mary
Thompson's ears.
"Our mission is to inspire healthy
living in young people through garden
based education," Mary, executive
director of the organization, said of
Apple Seeds, a Northwest Arkansas
based not-for-profit. "We reach about
7,000 students each year through our
programming. We reach students on
our farm, in our kitchen and in the
classrooms of area schools."
Apple Seeds is a local organization
devoted to inspiring healthy living
through garden-based education.
Sprouting a
healthier generation
Local not-for-profit devoted to
inspiring healthy habits in area kids
GARDEN
BASED
LEARNING
reaches
into
a
deep
part
of
all
of
us.
When
young
students
plant
a
seed,
watch
it
grow,
harvest
a
vegetable
and
taste
something
that
they
had
a
hand
in
growing,
they
remember
that
experience.
And
that
experience
—
that
moment
in
the
garden
—
can
change
them.
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