BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. – A garden day camp is taking place this week at the Berks County Agriculture Center.<\/p>\n
“I’ve always wanted to garden, and this year it’s getting more interesting to me,” says 10-year-old Andrew Kelly, who goes to Schuylkill Valley.<\/p>\n
Kelly is among the first group of kids to attend the Garden Day Camp in its debut year.\u00a0<\/p>\n
The day camp is being put on by the Berks County Master Gardeners and 4H.<\/p>\n
“Today we’re doing some in-depth lab activities around photosynthesis,” says Ann Marie Detavernier, the Master Gardener coordinator for Berks County.\u00a0<\/p>\n
“Chemistry can be kind of dry in a classroom setting, so learning about transpiration and how, when leaves are submerged underwater, there are bubbles of oxygen that you can actually see,\u201d Detavernier said.<\/p>\n
The master gardeners say youth programming is an important part of what they do.<\/p>\n
An activity students participated in on Tuesday showed the natural pigments found inside the plants’ leaves, flowers, and stems, teaching campers about how to attract pollinators and make photosynthesis more efficient.<\/p>\n
The four-day-long camp features different themes each day and includes several hands-on activities that help the kids learn more about best practices in gardening and environmental stewardship.<\/p>\n
“Educating youth is something that 4H really has well organized,” says Detavernier.<\/p>\n
“This is new to have us partner with them, and my master gardener volunteers are very excited about connecting with them,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BERN TOWNSHIP, Pa. – A garden day camp is taking place this week at the Berks County Agriculture…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":248872,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[106518,349,77587,106519,106522,106517,106520,106523,128,130,129,106521],"class_list":["post-248871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-reading","tag-4h","tag-berks-county","tag-environmental-stewardship","tag-garden-day-camp","tag-hands-on-activities","tag-master-gardeners","tag-photosynthesis","tag-pollinators","tag-reading-city","tag-reading-city-headlines","tag-reading-city-news","tag-youth-programming"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=248871"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/248871\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/248872"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=248871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=248871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=248871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}