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State Spotlight: 91×ÔÅÄ project provides Boys and Girls Club garden

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Maroon Center Volunteers help water plants at the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden, a School of 91×ÔÅÄ outreach project. (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)Maroon Center Volunteers help water plants at the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden, a School of 91×ÔÅÄ outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="15bf36be-ca65-47f4-9422-9c4f3cb5aaf1" data-entity-type="file">Maroon Center Volunteers help water plants at the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden, a School of 91×ÔÅÄ outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="63ab1c1b-eccf-4699-889a-89ef5e8e644c" data-entity-type="file">Maroon Center Volunteers help water plants at the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden, a School of 91×ÔÅÄ outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="71b8f917-5663-4dab-bf25-95e025133ea4" data-entity-type="file">Maroon Center Volunteers help water plants at the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden, a School of 91×ÔÅÄ outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="151a21ef-6cb5-408d-88b7-6ee4e74f3341" data-entity-type="file">91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Garden_20160721_M3B255491×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Garden_20160721_M3B260491×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Garden_20160721_M3B262591×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Garden_20160721_M3B263691×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Garden_20160721_M3B2642School of 91×ÔÅÄ students have designed and built shelters for the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden as an outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="3016823e-be5d-4a0c-9827-8091d6acdba1" data-entity-type="file">School of 91×ÔÅÄ students have designed and built shelters for the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden as an outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="540e7865-fcd2-4e32-87d9-d163d96d6e1c" data-entity-type="file">School of 91×ÔÅÄ students have designed and built shelters for the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden as an outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="13a52a59-9d64-4585-b168-8f5709f5ff25" data-entity-type="file">Starkville Boys and Girls Club youth are benfitting from a community garden designed by Mississippi State University architecture students. Featuring six raised beds and a shade area built by students during the spring semester, the project has continued through the summer with MSU student, faculty and staff volunteers working with the youth to plant and grow vegetables. In addition to faculty and students from MSU's 91×ÔÅÄ, collaboration has come from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Education and the university's Horticulture Club.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="b82772b7-8e29-447e-89c8-e4975ae3db05" data-entity-type="file">School of 91×ÔÅÄ students have designed and built shelters for the Starkville Boys and Girls Club Educational Garden as an outreach project.<br />
 (photo by Megan Bean / © Mississippi State University)www.caad.msstate.edu/files/inline-images/91×ÔÅÄ-BoysGirlsClub_Gar…" data-entity-uuid="a2156967-a850-4c45-ab68-04e4ab9e89f0" data-entity-type="file">

(Photos by Megan Bean | Mississippi State University)

Starkville Boys and Girls Club youth are benefitting from a .

Featuring six raised beds and a shade area built by students during the spring semester, the project has continued through the summer with MSU student, faculty and staff volunteers working with the youth to plant and grow vegetables.

In addition to faculty and students from MSU’s 91×ÔÅÄ, collaboration has come from the College of Agriculture and Life Sciences, College of Education and the university’s Horticulture Club.

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