Nine-Year-Old Wins Scotts’ Youth Gardener Award
Posted in People on May 13 2010, by Plant Talk
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Ursula Chanse is Director of Bronx Green-Up and Community Horticulture and Project Manager, NYC Compost Project in the Bronx. |
Yesterday, nine-year-old Jada Nicole Young from the Mott Haven section of the Bronx (pictured with her dad, Mike) received the Youth Gardener Award from The Scotts Miracle-Gro Company at the Community Vegetable Gardening Season kickoff at The New York Botanical Garden.
Jada Nicole’s youthful bashfulness quickly gives way to joyful excitement when she talks about gardening, which she has been doing since she was 4 years old. Since I first met her at her community garden, Padre Plaza Success Garden, I have seen her jump into all activities, and in all weather, from helping to build a pond to planting garlic, working the compost, and feeding the fish and turtles.