FREE Youth Gardening at Wilton’s Trackside Teen Center

Calling all teens with green thumbs!! The FREE Green Teens youth gardening program’s summer session begins Monday, June 24, from 9-11 AM at Trackside Teen Center. All Wilton rising middle and high school students are welcome. No gardening experience is necessary – just an interest in nature and in helping others, as the program is rooted (no pun intended!) in community service. The program will be held on most Mondays throughout the summer from 9-11 AM at Trackside.

An initiative of Wilton Garden Club (WGC) and Trackside Teen Center, Green Teens is led by experienced WGC gardeners. Its participants engage in hands-on activities like designing garden beds, planting, maintaining, harvesting as well as learning how to cook with the produce grown in their gardens. They also hear from occasional guest speakers and make creative garden art projects. From last year’s growing season, Green Teens donated 232 pounds of fresh, organic produce to the Wilton Food Pantry and 100 floral arrangements to the Wilton Senior Center and Wilton Commons, all from the gardens they tended.

“Our hope with Green Teens is to get more young people involved with creating and maintaining vegetable gardens, to teach them about the importance of healthy foods, and to give back to the community,” Laurie Musilli, co-chair of WGC’s youth gardening committee, said. “There’s something in this program for everyone.”

To register, visit the Trackside Teen Center website or contact Laurie Musilli at dljamus@hotmail.com. Sign-ups are welcome at any time; registration is ongoing.