Nanci Gale-Wilson, Member Service Manager at North Star Community Credit Unions Grafton, ND branch, conceived the "Seeds-2-$ave" project when she was completing her CUDE training last year.� Now, this May, the community project has been launched!� Through this program, with the tag line, "Teaching our youth to nurture their funds to a bountiful growth," children learn entrepreneurship of planting, growing, picking and selling their very own vegetables while saving some of their profits in their savings account at the credit union.� Wilson recently provided an update on the project for the Memo.
"Our first Seeds-2-$ave group meeting was with a master gardener, where we learned all about the parts of a plant and how it contributes to growing the produce," says Wilson.� "Our second meeting was at Grafton Floral, where we all made a list of the items that we wanted to grow, and each child chose an item off that list and went on a greenhouse hunt," she continued.� At the next meeting, the group will be learning how to use coffee espresso grounds to enrich their garden soil.
This is a truly a community project, with the garden land, seeds and seedlings donated by the local greenhouse and floral shop, Grafton Floral.� The planting and picking class is being taught by a local farmer, and the selling of the vegetables will be held at the local farmers market later this summer.
