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Learning is in the air as second-graders visit Gardens on Green in Gainesville
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Karen Bird, left, and Trae Cown prepare to let Sugar Hill Elementary second-graders taste fruit and spinach smoothies Tuesday morning as they make a visit to the Gardens on Green.
Screams of delight and wonder echoed through the trees, signaling another second-grader had found an earthworm in the compost heap. “We were over there. We got to carry worms,” second-grader Eveline Romero said, pointing to the edible compost station that substituted pretzels for wood and gummy worms for actual earthworms.“My other favorite part was the second one because we got to eat a little snack.”