{"id":1736,"date":"2013-02-21T10:55:32","date_gmt":"2013-02-21T15:55:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/?page_id=1736"},"modified":"2025-07-30T11:05:31","modified_gmt":"2025-07-30T15:05:31","slug":"kids-can-grow-in-york-county","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/kids-can-grow-in-york-county\/","title":{"rendered":"Kids Can Grow"},"content":{"rendered":"<h4><strong>This program is on hold for 2025, we hope to see you in 2026.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<h3><strong>Hands-on Gardening Experience for Children, Aged 7 to 12, in York County<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-6724\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2.jpg\" alt=\"&quot;Kids Can Grow&quot; youth participant stands proudly next to her newly planted square-foot, raised-bed garden\" width=\"375\" height=\"265\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-300x212.jpg 300w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-768x542.jpg 768w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-105x74.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-317x224.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-423x299.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-634x448.jpg 634w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-846x597.jpg 846w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/KCG-square-foot-garden-2-951x671.jpg 951w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,375px\" \/><strong>The Kids Can Grow program, begun in York County in 1999.<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>University of Maine Cooperative Extension\u2019s hands-on\u00a0<strong>Kids Can Grow<\/strong> program\u00a0gets children excited about gardening.<\/p>\n<p>Kids learn and practice gardening in a series of six monthly sessions from April through September at the <a href=\"https:\/\/mousamwaylandtrust.org\/?s=community+garden&amp;submit=Go\">Sanford Community Garden<\/a>. They are mentored and inspired by a team of <a title=\"York County Master Gardener Volunteer rogram\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/master-gardener-volunteer-program\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Master Gardener Volunteers<\/a>. Successfully raising vegetables, flowers, and herbs build self-esteem and start children on a journey that can become a satisfying, lifelong hobby.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>Kids Can Grow Teaches Children:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>how to choose, plant, and grow nutritious vegetables, herbs, and beautiful flowers for their families;<\/li>\n<li>the basics of good nutrition and food safety; and<\/li>\n<li>how to build and plant a 3\u2032 x 5\u2032 raised bed garden at home, with materials, seedlings, and amended topsoil supplied by us.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Kids Can Grow has been inspiring young gardeners for more than 20 years!<\/strong> UMaine Extension educators and Master Gardener Volunteers have been teaching children how to grow fresh produce and flowers in our York County demonstration gardens since 1999.<\/p>\n<p>All produce grown in our Kids Can Grow demonstration gardens is donated to the <a title=\"Maine Harvest for Hunger, York County\" href=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/harvest-for-hunger\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Maine Harvest for Hunger<\/a> project. Children learn responsibility, for they have ownership of their home garden and the produce it creates. Through the monthly sessions, children learn how to seed, thin, transplant, fertilize, weed, water, and harvest their own gardens.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"6727\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-6727\" src=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy.jpg\" alt=\"Earth Buddy made in Kids Can Grow Program\" width=\"200\" height=\"267\" srcset=\"https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy.jpg 843w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-768x1025.jpg 768w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-767x1024.jpg 767w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-105x140.jpg 105w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-317x423.jpg 317w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-423x565.jpg 423w, https:\/\/extension.umaine.edu\/york\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/28\/2018\/08\/Earth-Buddy-634x846.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 320px) 85vw, (max-width: 768px) 67vw, (max-width: 1024px) 62vw,200px\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Earth Buddy<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Kids also create garden crafts such as terracotta garden stones imprinted with plants, stones, etc., earth buddies (see photo, right), or \u201cwebsites\u201d (spider houses to attract beneficial insects). <strong>Nutrition education is an important part of Kid\u2019s Can Grow.<\/strong> Children learn about nutrition and food safety in our program. They create \u201charvest pizzas\u201d using produce from their own home gardens. <strong>Kids Can Grow is also a specialty 4-H Club.<\/strong> Each Kids Can Grow participant is enrolled as a 4-H member so they can display their garden produce, posters or journals about what they have learned and their garden craft items.<\/p>\n<p>Kids Can Grow is a program that meets monthly April through September on a Saturday from 9am-12pm.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>2025 Kids Can Grow Program<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p><strong>This program is on hold for 2025, we hope to see you in 2026.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Please contact our office at <a href=\"mailto:extension.york@maine.edu\">extension.york@maine.edu<\/a> if you have any questions or concerns.<\/p>\n<h3><strong>For More Information, Contact:<\/strong><\/h3>\n<h4>UMaine Cooperative Extension in York County<br \/>\n45 Kennebunk Road, Alfred ME 04002<\/h4>\n<h4>Tel:\u00a0<span id=\"footer-inner-phone\">207.324.2814 or 1.800.287.1535 (in Maine)<\/span><br \/>\nEmail: <a href=\"mailto:extension.york@maine.edu\">extension.york@maine.edu<\/a><\/h4>\n<hr \/>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This program is on hold for 2025, we hope to see you in 2026. Hands-on Gardening Experience for Children, Aged 7 to 12, in York County The Kids Can Grow program, begun in York County in 1999. University of Maine Cooperative Extension\u2019s hands-on\u00a0Kids Can Grow program\u00a0gets children excited about gardening. 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