Making the Grade: GROW Camp

That's Gardening, Responsibility, Once Weekly. OnQ reports on this farm-based environmental education program in Lawrence County where children in grades 1-3 learn valuable lessons through growing a garden.

Making the Grade: GROW Camp aired on Nov 18, 2009.


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