For six weeks, kids will learn what certain things mean and how to tend to the land.
ST. LOUIS — Two vans with eager children pulled up to a home with an urban farm attached in the West End neighborhood Thursday.
This is the first year Leah Burnett is putting on a summer camp under her nonprofit Growing Food Growing People, which was a dream that grew out of Burnett’s backyard.
For six weeks, Burnett will teach kids about growing food and tending to the land where it is grown.
“Half of the day we are tending to the land, the other half of the day we are incorporating Lincoln University’s curriculum which focuses really heavily on STEM,” she said.
On Thursday, 12 campers exercised indoors, participated in ice breakers and attended a garden meeting before they got their tools and moved outside to the farm. Some sprayed soil while …