Spring 2017
- Began research on Childhood Food Insecurity in Brazos County.
- Participants completed the following projects
Summer 2017
- Struggled to grow fruits and vegetables because of lack of water sources
- Participants completed the following projects
- take home seed project
- peach thyme popcicles
- beet popcicles
- learning about worms
- field trip to the Demonstration Idea Garden (DIG)
- end of semester party
Fall 2017
- Installed a butterfly garden
- Researchers participated in Boys & Girls Club of the Brazos Valley’s Fall Festival
- Participants completed the following projects
- morpho puppets
- filed trip to DIG to learn about pollinators (butterflies)
- restructuring gardens with keyhole design to account for lack of water sources
Spring 2018
- Received assistance from Big Event to clean up garden
- Transplanted plants into keyhole gardens
- field trip to BeeWeaver Apiary to learn about pollinators (bees)
- Participants completed the following projects