Looking for a way to contribute to the Vegetable Project? Want to make sure in the fall you have some early color in the spring? Thinking about a good reason to stay outside digging in the dirt until there’s a chill in the air? You can do it all by buying flower bulbs from the Vegetable Project now and planting them in the fall (which actually is coming sooner than you might think).
Won’t you please take a look at our offering, which we present in partnership with the wonderful Flower Power Fundraising company of Wisconsin through Monday, Oct. 13. Please click here to find everything you need.
Want to know more about the contribution you make by supporting the Vegetable Project? About the joy of working in the yard until the days are cold? About the early spring color?
The Vegetable Project has been getting Albany kids outside and getting their hands dirty since 2009. We build programming around the kids who are not thriving in the sit-still-in-your-chair world of mainstream teaching and learning. We teach a bit about plants and biology and ecology and science. But most of all, we give kids one-to-one attention. We build relationships. And we meet them where they are.
Now, about the joy of working in the yard until the days are cold: We cannot prove scientifically that it will work for you. Experience shows, however, that it works for most people – including the students who we will make sure get outside in November and December and January and February.
And that early spring color? Well, bulbs provide it sooner than anything else in your garden.
The Vegetable Project receives half of all proceeds raised by our sale of bulbs. And that means that you contribute to our work at teaching kids where their food comes from. It means that you support outdoor instruction. It means that you help us make a difference with kids who benefit from doing and touching and tasting and experiencing. And so much more.
–Bill Stoneman
