Now that's a cabbage!
Cassie Jordan of Elkton Christian Academy in Elkton, Md., is the state's winner in a national cabbage-growing contest for school children.
The program is sponsored by Bonnie Plants and is open to any and all third-graders. The company provides the seedlings of oversized cabbages, which can grow larger than a basketball and weigh up to 50 pounds.
Cassie's certainly qualified!
Teachers choose the best cabbage based on size and appearance and a picture of the student and the cabbage is submitted to the company. The state department of agriculture chooses the winner and the student receives a $1,000 scholarship.
Last year, 1.5 million students participated in 45 states.
"The cabbage program is our way of sharing our love of gardening with children," said Dennis Thomas, of Bonnie Plants. "Because we believe so deeply in the joy and peace gardening can bring to the soul, we want to afford the opportunity to children to experience this same joy and sense of accomplishment.
"We also want to do our part in supporting education".
Comments
Ah Ha! Back when Alaska first became a state, My Weekly Reader did an article about how everything grew so much bigger there. And while it was a different kid, the cabbage was surely the same! So, oversized cabbages are an actual entity? And will grow anywhere? Shame Weekly Reader! Misleading grade school kids!
Posted by: Eve | December 3, 2009 10:47 AM