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KNOW WHAT
GROWS
Related Advancement:
Skill Awards: □ Environment
Merit Badges: □ Bird Study □ Botany
□ Environmental Science □ Gar-
dening □ Mammals □ Nature □
Plant Science □ Reptile Study
Progress Awards: All
Scout Literature Resources:
Scout Handbook
Scoutmaster's Handbook
Fieldbook
Patrol and Troop Activities
Patrol and Troop Leadership
Leadership Corps
ScoutSongbook
Nature Hobbies and Activities, No.
26-094
Ecology Signs, No. 7167
Conservation Idea Sheet, "Energy
Gardens," available free by writing:
Conservation Service, Boy Scouts of
America, North Brunswick, N.J. 08902
Merit badge pamphlets for subjects
listed above
Other Resources:
Merit badge counselors for Gardening,
Environmental Science and Plant
Science; local garden club members.
TROOP LEADERS' COUNCIL. (See
agenda on page 119, Patrol and Troop
Leadership.)
Meet about a week before activities
begin on this theme. Cover these items:
• Decide on program for Garden Day.
See ideas on this page.
• Assign member to invite Gardening
merit badge counselor for troop meet-
ing instruction.
• Ask help from troop committee in
obtaining garden vegetable seeds and
borrowing tools.
• Discuss possible sites for troop pa-
trol or individual gardens; assign
members to check on their availability:
• Conduct progress review for Ten-
derfoot through First Class.
WHY GARDENING? Scouts are urged
to grow vegetable gardens for a couple
of reasons.
First, planning, planting, cultivating
and harvesting a garden will help them
understand nature and the wonder of
growing things.
Secondly, home gardens help to
relieve the worldwide crisis in food and
fertilizer. Scout garden plots are
sometimes called "energy gardens"
because they help to conserve en-
ergy-intensive commercial fertilizers
and agricultural chemicals and
because they use the limitless energy
of the sun.
An added benefit is that gardens can
do wonders for a food budget!
There are several possibilities for
Scout "energy gardens":
• Large troop garden in a rural area or
on a vacant lot in the city or suburb.
• Smaller patrol gardens in suburban
or city areas—possibly at the home of a
patrol member.
• Gardens grown by individual Scouts
at home.
• In the city, small gardens on apart-
ment house roofs or balconies, or large
window boxes.
The troop leaders' council should
discuss sites and sizes. Patrol leaders
discuss sites with their patrols.
In some parts of our country, vege-
tables are already growing. In others,
May might be too early for planting.
Adjust your troop meeting plans to fit
local conditions.
For instruction and advice on plan-
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Boy Scouts of America. Scouting, Volume 65, Number 3, May-June 1977, periodical, May 1977; New Brunswick, New Jersey. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth353589/m1/64/: accessed April 26, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu; crediting Boy Scouts of America National Scouting Museum.