From left to right: Isabell Brown, Skylee Caldwell and Lauren Howe remove weeds from the soil during the Dirty Diggers Garden Club meeting.
Snowdon Elementary School's Dirty Diggers Organic Gardening Club isn't just a clever name.
During lunch recess on Tuesdays and Thursdays, students will go outside to the back of the building to where the garden beds are, throw on a pair of gloves and quickly get to work removing weeds from the soil.
The Dirty Diggers is in its second year and has over 100 members. The club is open to third- fourth- and fifth-graders who sign up at the beginning of the school year and each class meets on a different day in a weekly rotation.
According to Pat Mertens, a speech/language teacher and the club's adv...
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