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Johnston County Cooperative Extension, West Smithfield Elementary open teaching garden; students held "salad party"
Summary
Johnston County Cooperative Extension and West Smithfield Elementary this month opened a grant-funded teaching garden, using master-gardener volunteers and a high-school shop-class partnership to create irrigated planting beds and outdoor classroom benches.
Meredith Wood of the Johnston County Cooperative Extension told the Board of Commissioners on Aug. 4 that the extension office worked with West Smithfield Elementary and community volunteers to convert an underused school plot into an irrigated teaching garden.
"I am so excited to be here this evening to share something that we've been doing through our office in partnership with one of our local schools," Wood said. She described a year-long effort that included a grant, master gardener volunteers,…
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