DeBusk Family Club- Youth of the Month – November

Nate

“My favorite thing about the Club is helping in the garden,” says 8 year-old Nate, a member of Boys & Girls Clubs of the Tennessee Valley – DeBusk Family Club. “I’ve learned a lot about gardening by going outside and helping plant, water, and harvest the food. We have three different areas of our garden: a spot for vegetables, another for herbs, and a spot that is a native pollinator garden. In the pollinator garden, we have plants that are native to Tennessee, but they also attract bees so they can go to work pollinating the vegetables in the garden.

This year we grew okra, hot peppers, tomatoes, lima beans, and herbs like rosemary and basil. We had lots of fresh veggies and we would gather them up and put them in buckets to give to our families when they came into the Club to pick us up. Everyone really enjoyed it!”