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Lower Columbia School Gardens reports growth: 20 school sites, 1,230 volunteer hours and plant giveaways
Summary
Ian Thompson, operations coordinator for Lower Columbia School Gardens, told the Calas County Board of Health the nonprofit supported gardens at Longview and Kelso schools, started 15,000 seedlings, enlisted 102 new volunteers and distributed roughly 2,000 plants to the community.
Ian Thompson, operations coordinator for the nonprofit Lower Columbia School Gardens, told the Calas County Board of Health on Thursday that the program has expanded to gardens at about 20 elementary and middle schools in the Longview and Kelso school districts and has increased volunteer and community activity. Thompson said the nonprofit started roughly 15,000 baby plants from seed this season and dispersed them across school gardens. “We started 15,000 baby plants, you know, from seed, and then those are dispersed out to all the gardens,” he said. He told the board…
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