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4-H Fall & Spring Indoor Gardening Project

4-H Indoor Gardening is a program designed for your students with amazing plant science lessons to expand their appreciation of our environment, designed to help meet Pennsylvania Academic Science Standards. This fall, students will have the opportunity to learn how to plant cuttings and seeds, plus much more. Suggested classes begin the week of November 3 and continue through the week of December 8.

• 4-H provides plant materials and a complete outline of lessons, instructions, and supplemental activities for each project for teachers and students. All supplies are distributed at leader training on October 30, 2008. Payment and completed 4-H Member group enrollment form are also required at this time. NO materials will be released without both in hand. Be sure to bring helpers to load your soil and leave plenty of trunk space for your supplies!
  
  
• The cost for 4-H Indoor Gardening is $12.00 per student, plus a $20 per classroom Educational Materials Fee* if the program is being conducted during the school day and not after school. Supplies for one teacher will be provided free of charge. Due to increased costs, if you desire additional teacher/helper supplies, they will be billed at the student rate. Please indicate your needs on the enrollment form.
  Please make your check payable to "Delaware County Cooperative Extension."
  
  
• If you need flyers to advertise your program . . . a customizable flyer to recruit your students for after school programs (in MS Word) is available for you to adapt as needed.
  Click here to download it from our website:
• You will be asked if you want to open it or save it.
• Click save and put it where you save your other documents.
• You can then open it, make your changes and save them.
• Print as many as you need.
  
  
• Please make every effort to attend the leader training or send an alternate to pick up materials. With close to 700 students enrolled countywide each session, we do not have the resources to make individual arrangements for delivery. We cannot guarantee plant health if materials are not picked up on time.
  
  
• To register, please return the 4-H Indoor Gardening Enrollment form by October 3, 2008. Materials will be ordered on that day. No adjustments to your order may be made after that.
  
  
• Please adhere to our deadline to insure sufficient time for ordering your materials. The 4-H Member Group Enrollment Form and enrollment fees are due on or before the training date of October 30, 2008. Failure to make payment on time will delay distribution of your materials.

*Penn State University has imposed a $20 educational fee on each 4-H project conducted in the classroom (not after school) to support curriculum development and publication costs. You may want to contact your parent teacher organization to help you fund this exciting educational program. Please note that if 70% of the youth in a school are participating in the free and reduced lunch program, then the school is exempt from payment of this classroom fee.

If you have any questions please call me at 610-690-7667 or e-mail me at cmn11@psu.edu. I look forward to working with you.

Cathy Norrbom, 4-H Indoor Gardening Educator

**We are also trying to get the amount of soil under control. Please send me an email with the amount of soil you already have or if you do not have any on hand.

Directions to Garrett Williamson 4-H Farm: From the intersection of Rt. 3 and Rt. 252, proceed west on Rt. 3 to the first traffic light; turn left on Bishop Hollow Road. Follow Bishop Hollow Road for approximately 1.5 miles. Watch for the sign for Garrett Williamson Foundation - after the sign, turn right on the following driveway and proceed to the large bank barn. Parking is available near the barn, or if that area is full, proceed up the driveway past the barn and park on the lawn between the driveway and the fields. DO NOT park where places are marked "Resident Only."The meeting room is on the ground level of the barn, inside the rolling doors. The phone number for the 4-H Center is 610-356-6210, for emergency use only.

The information provided on this site is for Delaware County residents and may not be the same as that offered by other counties. If you are not a Delaware County resident, you should contact the Cooperative Extension office
(in Pennsylvania or other US States) located in your county.

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