Summer Camp
  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good

Gardening Badge

TO ​​​EARN YOUR BADGE, CHOOSE ANY COMBINATION OF ACTIVITIES AND FILL OUT THE BADGE FORM
Online Diversions
Wander the paths of a botanic garden with a virtual tour:
Chicago Botanic Garden  
United States Botanic Garden
Offline Adventures
​Working with plants helps us slow down, notice small changes, and appreciate new growth. 
  • Start a vegetable garden. square foot gardeninG DEMO [YouTube]
  • Plant a native flower or shrub. Native species are carefree and attract wildlife. Lake County Forest Preserve Native Plant Sale
  • Plant a small tree in your yard or protect a sapling that has planted on its own.
  • Make a plant marker using a rock and paint. Some inspiration
  • Use fresh veggies or herbs to prepare a refreshing meal or a little nosh. Suggested cookbooks
Suggested Reading
​Read for fun ~ read for good!
  • Three book recommendations in 4 minutes (video): Book Break: Gardening 
  • Fiction suggestions: books in bloom
  • Gardening  Hoopla 📖   cloudLibrary 🎧 📖
  • Kids’ gardening Hoopla 📖  cloudLibrary 📖
​Psst: All reading counts! You do not have to read about gardening.

​​CLAIM YOUR GARDENING BADGE

At the end of the week, submit your activities and reading minutes. Complete one online form for each participant. ​Deadline for raffle entry: Wednesday, June 10, at 12 PM CDT.
Badge Form

Print a Tracking sheet

Download a printable PDF to help keep track of the badges you've earned and the number of minutes you've read.
Download PDF
​As I listened from a beach-chair in the shade
To all the noises that my garden made,
It seemed to me only proper that words
Should be withheld from vegetables and birds.
— from “Their Lonely Betters” by W. H. Auden
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  • Badges
    • Gardening - Week 1
    • Mystery - Week 2
    • Travel - Week 3
    • History - Week 4
    • Families - Week 5
    • Music - Week 6
    • Heroes - Week 7
    • Animals & Nature - Week 8
    • Food & Drink - Week 9
    • Arts & Crafts - Week 10
  • Instructions
  • Read for Good