2017

New Garden Programming: Hintgen

Exciting News!  Grow La Crosse is excited to announce that we are partnering with Hintgen Elementary School to create the Hintgen Urban Garden (H.U.G.). This garden will be designed over the winter months with input…
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Garden Spotlight: Spence Elementary

  Thank you to our sponsors who make educational programming and maintenance possible at Harry Spence Elementary School.  The following programming and garden updates would not be possible without the following support: Compost Bins A…
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A Sneak Peak at Summer School

Have you ever wondered what farm camp was like? How about hands-on garden lessons during summer school? We're about to show you! This is the first of three videos Grow La Crosse is releasing to…
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Wednesday Night Fun

Wednesdays from 5pm-7pm is Family Harvest Night at the Grow La Crosse Hamilton/SOTA I school garden. This is great way for the whole family to help out, learn more about gardening, and take home some fresh…
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Get Involved, Become a Sponsor!

Sponsor a Garden We are introducing a new way to support garden education in our schools! It is only with the help of our sponsors that we are able to keep our school gardens up and…
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Getting Inspired on the Farm

Meet Liza, our Cognitive Psychologist! Liza Ware is a professor of cognitive psychology at Viterbo University and we are lucky enough to spend the summer with her. She studied in Portland, OR for her undergraduate…
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Word from the Executive Director and More

Note from the Executive Director- This spring I was hired as the new Executive Director for Grow La Crosse. For the past four years I have been employed as Grow La Crosse's Program Director at…
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Thank You to our Hamilton Helpers!

We are grateful to our Hamilton garden volunteers! We had a few volunteers help out with maintenance and harvesting at the Hamilton School Garden last week. They did a wonderful job and we had a…
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Jump into July!

Get Inspired this Summer Next week we host our first Summer on the Farm camp this summer.  There are still a few openings.  Children between age 5 and 13 can enjoy the outdoors with us.…
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Upcoming Events at the Garden

Wilderness Explorers This past week State Road Elementary hosted the Wilderness Explorers camp for children in grades 1-3. The kids had a blast growing new plants in the garden while learning about different pollinators and…
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