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Thursday, March 24, 2016

A Partnership that Makes School Gardens Grow

Trequan McGee cares about Agriculture and young people. He enjoys connecting both of these through service learning at some of our Guilford County schools with gardens.

 We connected with Trequan at NCA&T through Ms. Odile Hutchette’s   HORT 351- Practice in Sustainable Horticulture- class. It has a project with service-learning component. Here you see him with Ms Lubchenco’s 4th grade class at Brooks Global Studies. They are learning about why to do square foot gardening.




Trequan is a great role model for these young students. He shares with them about his classes in horticulture and how he plans to get a graduate degree in plant breeding (and hopes to work his own small farm). He really enjoys answering their many questions.  Trequan will also work with 4th and 5th graders at Wiley El. and lead an activity at Jones Elementary’s family garden day Saturday March 30th.

Thanks Tre!

*Trequan McGeePresident of Collegiate FFAPresident of Young Farmers and RanchersChairman of the DSACUndergraduate Representative for the SAES Advisory BoardUSDA Multicultural Scholar School of Agriculture and Environmental Sciences North Carolina A&T State University



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