Triple Trio Spice Club
CONN – The spice club met for its fourth meeting at Flowers to Fragrance Lavender Farm.
Nick Morris had arranged for members to tour the farm with a scavenger hunt. We got to compare lavender plants at various stages of growth and see an oil extractor. We drank lemon and mint water and ate lavender ice cream sandwiches. We all got to take home a lavender plant for our own gardens.
submitted by Sarah and Julie O’Donnell
Triple Trio Potato Club
CONN – The third and fourth meetings of the Potato Club were held at the home of Catherine Gorman.
We checked on our potatoes in the garden, added another tire and soil to our tire tier and weeded our potatoes. We talked about the history of potato production and about the different varieties of potatoes. We sprayed our potatoes with garlic spray (that we made at spice 4-H) to ward off potato bugs.
We ended our meeting eating the potato candy, potato coins and potato chips we had made.
submitted by Ainsley Hill
Damascus 4-H Growth Spurts
DAMASCUS – On July 29 the Damascus 4-H Growth Spurts held their fifth meeting at Levendale Farms of Selene Richens. Levendale farms is commercial organic.
Selene and her family run a Community Shared Agriculture (CSA) program. Selene and her sister gave the Growth Spurts a tour around their farm and they showed us some of the tools that they use. Members even got to see some of their bee hives. The Growth Spurts finished the meeting off by discussing the organization of their planters at the Arthur Fall Fair and they had a snack.
Make sure to check out the Growth Spurts display at the Arthur Fall Fair on Sept. 7.
