Join Amie Tutor, health educator with the WVU Extension Service Family Nutrition Program, as we learn about soil and compost and make a "lasagna garden" together from an old cardboard box.

00:00 Intro
01:24 What is soil?
02:45 Activity: Shake, Rattle & Roll
05:44 Compost
08:26 Activity: Making a box "lasagna garden"
10:40 Read-aloud: "We are the Gardeners"
20:45 Garden Journal Week 7 (download yours at http://jmgkids.us/wp-content/uploads/2015/07/LGEG-Garden-Journal-with-bonus-pages-2015.pdf)
21:37 Recipe: Spinach smoothies
25:18 Physical activity: weeding the garden

To learn more about Energy Express, visit https://extension.wvu.edu/energy-express

This material adapted from the “Learn, Grow, Eat & Go” curriculum, which is part of the International Junior Master Gardener Program from Texas A&M AgriLife Extension.

This material funded by Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP) and the Expanded Food and Nutrition Education Program (EFNEP).

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