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Give Back to Mother Nature at Intergenerational Garden Project
The garden provides a venue for senior citizens with an interest in gardening to teach good nutrition to preschoolers.
Get your hands dirty this weekend helping out with a gardening project at Cuyamaca College.
Volunteers are needed to join together with the California Conservation Corps to line dry creek bed with river rock at the college's Intergenerational Garden. It's a job that may not required a green thumb, but will surely take a lot of elbow grease.
The environmentally friendly project is one of 12 statewide, and the only one in San Diego County, selected as a Volunteer Day project by the California Conservation Corps Foundation.
About 20 corps members and staff from the Vista and National City training centers will help create the creek bed that is one of the many features of the 1/3-acre garden located between the Child Development Center and the Water Conservation Garden on the Cuyamaca College campus.
Volunteers are needed to provide Mother Nature with a boost from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday at the college, 900 Rancho San Diego Parkway, Rancho San Diego.
The first 45 volunteers who RSVP via email to Philip.Lembke@ccc.ca.gov will receive a free lunch at the worksite. Tools and materials will be provided, but volunteers should bring sunscreen, hats and gloves. Free parking will be available at the child development center lot.
The Intergenerational Garden, started in part with a $25,000 grant from the county’s Health and Human Services Agency, was also made possible with the help of vendors donating their time and equipment and the handiwork of students, community volunteers and the California Conservation Corps during the last six months.
School officials say the garden provides a venue for senior citizens with an interest in gardening to teach good nutrition to preschoolers in the college’s Child Development Center, and will eventually include a community garden for the public to enjoy.
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