Junior Master Gardener Program

Planting Roots in your Community

The 4-H JMG program takes science/horticulture into the classrooms with hands on activities. It is our mission to enhance educational experience through hands on learning activities and provide curricular materials that enable us to help youth learn and retain science with concrete experience. Youth perform community service activities and gain skills in problem solving, communication and goal setting.

At present we are in 8 schools and 20 classrooms. The schools are located throughout the county and reach approximately 350 youth. At present we have two on the South side, two in the North side, One west of downtown, and one on the Westside.

Our current 8 schools are Southside Estates, Love Grove, Windy Hill and Twin Lakes on the southside, Oceanway on the northside, Crystal Springs on the westsid, Reynolds Lane just west of downtown and West Riverside just south of downtown. The average number of children at our schools who qualify for reduced or free lunch is 61%. We are serving a population with 55% of their students declaring themselves to be minorities.

Jaguar Foundation provides partial funding for this program.

Teachers wanting to start a 4-H Junior Master Gardener Program should contact the Duval County 4-H Office at 387-8850.

 

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