Book Fair Plant Sale

School here is coming to an end soon. Next week Thursday is our last day! We still have some tomato plants left so our principle said we can sell after school next week during the book fair.

 

We will make recycled signs out of cardboard to hang up in the hallway to advertise.

 

The Book Fair is Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday

3:00 to 4:30

 

We will plan on setting up shop and we will sell until our plants are gone.

So come get your tomato plants before it is too late and help us raise money for the Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum, Ground Works, and The Black Hills Raptor Center.

 

Where: Garfield Elementary School

When: May 12, 13, and 14

3:00 pm to 4:30pm

 

 



Plant Sale Farmer's Market!

 

 

FARMER'S MARKET!!

 

 

We brought along the plant stand although we have outgrown it a bit. It made a good check out counter.

Set up shop!

 

 

 The morning crew all lined up, waiting for customers.

 

 

Working out or sales methods.

 

Fans of Ground Works showing up to buy.

 

Early in the morning ready to work.

 

 

Would you like to buy a tomato plant for your garden?

This side are our specials.

These are Celebrations and those are the Better Boys.

Wheelin' and Dealin'

Nice sunny day!

There was a little wind.

I am Kids Grow Green!

I am Kids Grow Green!

I am Kids Grow Green!

 

Plants waiting for their new owners.

In the heart of Downtown Sioux Falls.

 

 

These look good.

I will make you a deal!

How many did you want again?

Taking a break from selling all day.

Money box is filling up!

 

 

 

 

Handing out magazines to tell about our project.

 

Letting people check out the merchandise.

 

This tomato is good for slicing and sandwiches, and this one is great for salsa.

 

 

Would you like a box for those?

 

Let me help you carry those to your car.

 

My friends had a lot of fun selling today!

They did a great job.

Thanks everyone!

 

We have some plants leftover. Please send us an email if you are interested.

Better Boy's and Celebrations $2 each

Unknown varieties where we lost the labels are $1 each or 6 plants for $5

Email us at kidsgrowgreensf@live.com to arrange a time to come get them.



 

Proceeds go to Ground Works, Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum and The Black Hills Raptor Center

Radio News Coverage! SDPB

South Dakota Public Broadcasting called me Wednesday to do a phone interview for a radio news story on the Kids Grow Green Plant sale.

 

 

They talked to me the most but they ended up using my mom in the final story.

Oh well, all publicity for our sale is good and my mom is ok too.

Listen Here

 

 

It's Time!

 

The Kids Grow Green

Tomato Plant Sale

 

Where: Sioux Empire Farmer's Market

8th and Rail Road Center

Sioux Falls SD

 

When: Saturday May 3rd

 

Time: 8:00am-1:00pm

 

 

Some Plants are Big, and some plants are small...

 

But we need to sell them all!

 

Come to our tomato plant sale!

 

Proceeds to benefit..

Ground Works

Mary Jo Wegner Arboretum

Black Hills Raptor Center



It's Rummage Sale time!

It's Kingswood rummage sale time again. Kingswood is a HUGE area of rummage sales. We live in the extended  Kingswood area and our street is so busy, it is usually ends up like one way traffic.

So in keeping with tradition I set up shop at our rummage sale this year for an hour before soccer practice started.

I sold 15 tomato plants!

 

Not a bad start. I will be up and running again tomorrow after school.

 

While I sent to soccer practice the owner of Kidtopia Toy Store stopped by our rummage sale and saw my booth, tomato plants, and the Hood Magazine All Things Green Issue's I had sitting out. She was impressed and left her phone number and card with my grandparents, who were running our rummage while our family was at soccer events tonight.

 

She said if we have a lot of leftover Tomato plants we can come sell them outside of Kidtopia and she will send out a mass email to all of the people on her email list.

We also have a possible offer to sell plants outside a local Hy-Vee.

 

We will see how our May 3rd Sioux Empire Farmer's Market Sale goes and see how many plants we have leftover.

 

Happy Earth Day! We want to tell you about a Contest!

Looking for a way to celebrate Earth Day?

 

How about truly learning what can and can not be recycled in your recycling bin if you live in the Sioux Falls area?

Do you know?

Are you sure?

Do you ever ask yourself... Is this recyclable?  Do you find out or just guess?

 

 

 

Well I am here to share with you a way to solve this issue in your home and also possibly help you win your very own laptop in the process!

 

No I am serious!!

 

Millennium Recycling has a problem.

 Many people ask the same question two questions.

 

What CAN go into the recycling bin?

and..

What CANNOT go into the recycling bin?

 

To help them to better spread the word, and cut down on the confusion, they came up with a contest. You visit their website and learn what can, and cannot be recycled.

 

Here is a great place to get started.

 

Totally visit the link whether you enter the contest or not..

Learning something new to help the environment is a great way to celebrate Earth Day!
Or any day for that matter!

 

I even learned something new about what can and cannot be recycled.

 

Their website is kid friendly and has fun stuff for teachers as well.

 

 

 

Then to enter the contest make a YouTube video answering one of the questions.

 

The winner of the contest will receive a  Laptop from Bargain Bytes.

 

Here is a link to the contest page!

 

Millennium Recycling Video Contest


If you enter... to get more coverage for your video we want to post it on our blog to so we can help you share what you learned and learn along with you.
Send your video link to us as well at kidsgrowgreensf@live.com and we will post it!
This will be one of our Kids Grow Green Challenges as well.

 

Happy Earth Day!

 

 

Party For the Planet Photos

 

At the Party for the Planet Event at the Great Plains Zoo, we were able to teach many people how to recycle newspaper into origami seed planting pots. It was a popular booth activity.

 

It was a windy day so teaching in the wind was different than teaching at Ag Day.

 

We even had to attach our sign to the side of our booth onto a row of chairs, because it was the only way we could make it work with the wind.

We had a steady stream all 3 hours.

I am glad I had three friends sign up to help.

The theme was Princess and the Frog because April is national Frog month and in our break time we got to learn a bit about how far different frogs can jump.

Emma and Meagan jumping like frogs.

We have folded so many that we make it look easy. People were calling us "little professors."

We had our green hood shirts and my mom and I up cycled some frog headbands the night before  using some sticky foam we rescued from the local girl scouts who were tossing large scraps of it away at a reading event a couple years back. We brought home a big box of sticky foam scraps that day we rescued from the landfill and we have used it for many projects over the past couple years. It is handy to have and they were just tossing it.

 

I wonder how many of these we folded all together... That is a lot of newspaper we made into something new.

 

 

Nicole was back to help us fold again as well. She helped at Ag Day too.

 

Because there were 4 of us and two parents most of the time we got plenty of breaks to check out other booths too.

We were also advertising about the milk carton recycling as you can see our bin in the back.

 

We had a few people sign up for our email list so we can add them to our blog and we also were able to hand out Hood Magazine's All Things Green Issue with Kids Grow Green as the Cover Story.

 

It was a good day, but I was ready to be done by the end.

I am running out of steam a bit, this is hard work, but the sale is near.... and I do enjoy selling!