Caledonia Food Shelf Garden Box Project, Mayville Blue Ribbon Strivers 4-H Club Project

Published On: March 30th, 2015|Categories: Semcac in the Media|

  WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI

 Mayville Blue Ribbon Strivers 4-H Club starts new project

Mar 29, 2015 3:59 PM CDT Updated:Mar 29, 2015 3:59 PM CDT

By Caroline Hecker, Multi-Media Journalist

Thank you to the Mayville Blue Ribbon Strivers 4-H Club in Caledonia! They built 4 more garden boxes for the food shelf recipients =Fresh produce and herbs for the food shelf recipients!

View the news story on WXOW telling about the Houston County Food Shelf garden box project:

http://www.wxow.com/story/28643049/2015/03/29/mayville-blue-ribbon-strivers-4-h-club-starts-new-project

Mayville Blue Ribbon Strivers 4-H Club starts new project – WXOW News 19 La Crosse, WI – News, Weather and Sports |

The Mayville Blue Ribbon Strivers 4-H Club in Caledonia is only one of two 4-H clubs in the state of Minnesota to be awarded the Community Youth Leadership Award.

The award stems from the group’s hard work on four garden boxes outside the Houston County Food Shelf, providing fresh produce to those using the food pantry.

The 4-H club donated more than 270 pounds of produce like lettuce, onions and radishes last year.

The success of the four garden boxes prompted the group to build four more this year.

“I like building the boxes because we help people that don’t have a lot of food,” member Eric Mauss said. “My favorite part is probably using the drills to put the boxes together.”

The Blue Ribbon Strivers will now have eight garden boxes outside the Houston County Food Shelf, with 4-H members and their families planting, watering and harvesting the food over the course of the next six months.

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