Youth Garden Club
The Muslim Women's Coalition is excited to host its 3rd annual Youth Garden Club! Programming is led by Linda Wolk, MWC's Youth Garden Teacher, Professional Florist, Lifelong Gardener!
Garden Club Details
All Summer Long - Starting June 24th
Last year’s program was a big success, our youth participants learned to grow their own food and celebrated with a delicious harvest tasting at the end.
It’s a fun and engaging way for young people to explore where our food comes from while building lifelong skills. We’re bringing the program back this year and look forward to welcoming both returning and new participants!
These classes offer more than just learning to plant and grow food and flowers. They offer an introduction to environmentalism, conservation and stewardship. All the classes provide numerous examples of plants, flowers, soil, tree sections and much more.
Students will learn:
- To become “stewards of the environment”—learning to become “Green Deens”
- How to water plants, where our water goes and how water is cleaned for us to drink
- About land, trees, plants and water conservation as well as invasive species pertaining to them
- About good bugs and bad bugs and weeds and how they affect our gardens
There will be “tastings” of various foods such as tomatoes, cucumbers, blueberries, maple syrup, cherries and more. All food sampled are plant based.
Please note this if your child has food allergies (sometimes nuts are involved).
One fun activity last year was a “virtual trip” to Hawaii through flowers purchased in Hawaii and shipped to our class.
Dates: Tuesdays and Thursdays
Time: TBD
Ages: 10-16
Location: Islamic Resource Center | 5235 S. 27th St., Greenfield, WI 53221
Meet Linda Wolk:
Garden Club Coordinator
Linda Wolk is in her third year teaching Garden Club for Muslim Women’s Coalition.
Muslim Women’s Coalition’s Garden Club coordinator Linda Wolk of Milwaukee has deep roots. Her background in gardening began in infancy as the daughter of owners of a florist shop. From a Polish Catholic family, her ties with MWC go back decades to one of the Islamic Society of Milwaukee’s early interfaith dinners. Wolk’s study of languages, faiths and business has been practically lifelong.
Wolk now shares her energy, talents and diverse interests with others through her volunteer work for MWC. She teaches popular classes to adults and youth on how to tend a garden and participates in various MWC initiatives, earning the organization’s 2023 Volunteer of the Year Award.
Learn more about her story on the Wisconsin Muslim Journal.