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Garden Built At Smithtown's Mt. Pleasant Elementary School
The vegetables grown in the garden will be donated to the local food pantry. Students learned how to nurture and grow seeds.
SMITHTOWN, NY — A garden built at Mt. Pleasant Elementary School is promising to bear fruit.
"I’m coming back when there are cucumbers to pick,” Smithtown Supervisor Edward Wehrheim told the students.
The Town of Smithtown, Reworld Waste (formerly Covanta) and the Smithtown Central School District teamed up to create the new garden, the district announced in a news release.
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Kathy Smerechniak, the STEM specialist at Mt. Pleasant, has been working with the student council to nurture plants from seeds under grow lights.
Students have been actively involved in the maintenance of plants and have spent time learning about the life cycle of plants in their science curriculum.
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On May 22, Wehrheim, Smithtown Public Information officer Nicole Gargulio and Reworld staff visited the garden to see the students’ thriving plants in the garden beds.
The vegetables grown in this garden will be donated to the local food pantry.
The garden beds, made from recycled material, were donated by Reworld along with seeds, compost, solar-powered water times and irrigation system.
"The Town of Smithtown will continue to support Smithtown schools to advocate for additional opportunities at other elementary schools to develop similar projects," the school district wrote.
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