Cass County
Soil Conservation District

May 16, 2008

 URBAN YOUTH GARDENS 

 

Spring is here and we are making plans for the 2008 Urban Garden Program. The Fargo Park District will again provide land for the garden plots. Since the appearance of our gardens improved so much in the last two years, we have decided to require a $10.00 non-refundable deposit for each plot. Each boy and girl who enrolls in the garden program will have a 20x20 ft. garden plot to plan, plant, maintain and harvest as their own. The program is open to youth six to seventeen years of age.

              Youth who enroll in the Urban Garden Program will be assembled into garden groups with one or more adult garden leaders per group. The adult garden leaders assign the garden plots to the youth in their group, provide gardening educational materials, provide counsel to the youth gardeners and help coordinate the Urban Garden Program.   

            To enroll in the 2008 Urban Garden Program,  contact the Cass County Extension Office at 1010  2^nd Avenue South, or telephone 241-5707.