
Life Lessons Taking Root in Gardening Program
Clip: Season 4 Episode 295 | 3m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
It comes with a meaningful reminder about growing potential and community.
A Bowling Green group is growing healthy food for their neighbors, but other lessons are taking root. It comes with a meaningful reminder about growing potential and community, making these gardeners the cream of the crop.
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Life Lessons Taking Root in Gardening Program
Clip: Season 4 Episode 295 | 3m 19sVideo has Closed Captions
A Bowling Green group is growing healthy food for their neighbors, but other lessons are taking root. It comes with a meaningful reminder about growing potential and community, making these gardeners the cream of the crop.
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A Bowling Green group is growing healthy food for their neighbors, but other lessons are taking root.
It comes with a meaningful reminder about growing potential and community, making these gardeners the cream of the crop.
More on our farm focused segment we call rooted.
>> There you go.
That's a nice one, Jenna.
>> I like picking carrots and I like picking spinach and kale.
>> Gardening is among the many interests Jenna Greer's parents encouraged her to explore.
Upon high school graduation.
>> While everybody else is headed off to college or they're going to tech school, they're getting married.
They're having kids.
>> Bill Greer feared those with intellectual and developmental disabilities didn't have many of those same milestones.
>> Nice work.
We wanted to create an opportunity, an opportunity for Jenna to continue to learn and grow, but not just her.
Lots of other really cool people that have incredible potential.
>> They grow that potential here at Top Crops, a year round garden and greenhouse at the Western Kentucky University Farm.
>> A lot of these folks have been part of the garden since day one.
>> That includes John Michael Huffman.
>> I like to pick everything like broccoli, carrots and all that stuff.
>> And cabbage.
>> I love the community.
>> I think we're going to pull up all the broccoli.
>> And truly, I mean, these are some of the truest, kindest people I've ever met.
>> Hayley McBride is a WCU honors College student who interns at Top Crops.
>> I love that we really try to make sure everybody has a role.
We're able to pull different types of people in and make sure that everybody's contributing and being able to learn the essential life skills, and I love being a part of that.
>> Other volunteers also helped the operation run smoothly, like Julie Denton Price and her son Grady.
>> It didn't take us long to realize the ones who were really learning and growing are the people who are privileged to work with the gardeners.
>> About ten gardeners make up their core group, with another 10 to 15 from other groups and organizations like The Hive.
>> Each year we have kind of a rotation of crops that we go through.
So we plant, we all work together, digging the holes for them, planting inside and in our high tunnel.
>> Could you hold on to this for a second?
>> Then eventually it's time to harvest with a thorough washing, packaging and trip to the market to sell.
>> We go to the farmers market every Saturday morning.
>> I'm proud of their work because they produce something that's beneficial to the health of the community.
They're growing fresh vegetables, fresh herbs.
They're growing flowers that bring a smile to people's face on a Saturday morning when they sell them at the farmers market.
>> Being a vendor at the farmers market brings its own set of lessons.
>> They're learning how to sell.
They're learning how to make change.
>> They're also making change in how others view those with special needs.
Interacting and building relationships with the community.
>> They get a chance to see what these young people are capable of, what anybody's capable of if we're given a chance.
>> Top crops began in 2013 and is a year round venture.
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