La Plata, MD – Calling all kids with green thumbs – the National Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program has selected a La Plata student as the state’s winning kid cabbage farmer. Noah Cusack grew a huge cabbage and was selected as the winner by the Maryland Agriculture Department.
Bonnie Plants says over 1.5 million third graders across 48 states joined in the hands-on gardening fun with the goal of winning ‘best in state’ like Noah. A student at Walter J. Mitchell Elementary School, Noah has earned a $1,000 savings bond towards education from Bonnie Plants. In total, 11,134 children from Maryland participated in the “Kids Grow Green: Cashing in Cabbage” program, which was launched in 2002.
According to Bonnie Plants, “If nurtured and cared for, kids can cultivate, nurture and grow giant cabbages, some bigger than a basketball, tipping the scales, often over 40 pounds!”
Registration for this year’s cabbage competition is underway. Click here to participate and a two-inch cabbage plant will be shipped to your students.
“The Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program is a wonderful way to engage children’s interest in agriculture, while teaching them not only the basics of gardening, but the importance of our food systems and growing our own,” says Stan Cope, President of Bonnie Plants.
“Over the course of the past 13 years, the Bonnie Plants Cabbage Program has proved to be an exciting, worth-while experience that children, teachers, parents and grandparents across the country have embraced. We’re pleased and proud of our Maryland State Winner, Noah Cusack,” says Cope.
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