You can see lettuce and zucchini growing alongside the love for a new hobby at the Boys and Girls Club in Sturgeon Bay. The gardening club at the Boys and Girls Club Bay and Lakes Region is growing fruits and vegetables in their raised garden beds right outside the doors. The kids receive hands-on advice from the Door County Master Gardeners to assist in their efforts to grow food that can be used as snacks at the club. The gardening club also received a major boost from the Dillion Family Foundation on Thursday with former Green Bay Packers running AJ Dillon and his wife Gabrielle donating $25,000 to the effort and to celebrate the foundation’s one-year anniversary. Development Director Kacie Mueller says the Dillon Family Foundation Garden Beds are more than that to the kids that will get to use them.
Mueller says the gardening club fits right with its six pillars of success at the club, which in this case covers health and fitness.