The City-Wide Blue-Ribbon Show to award the top student gardeners is planned for Saturday, September 14, 2024, at the McMillen Community Center.
News release from Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation:
Blue Ribbon Show to Award Top Student Gardeners
The School Children’s Flower & Vegetable Association continues 98-year traditionFort Wayne, Indiana (Setpember 13, 2024) – Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation applauds the commitment and accomplishments of the executive committee of the School Children’s Flower and Vegetable Association (SCFVA) and participating students in the City-Wide Blue-Ribbon Show. It is planned for Saturday, September 14, at the McMillen Community Center, 3901 Abbott Street in Fort Wayne. The public is welcome to view the entries beginning at 2:30 p.m. and observe a merit awards ceremony at 2:45 p.m.
This show represents the work of top student gardeners from over 60 elementary schools including area home schools. Each spring, every Fort Wayne student in kindergarten to grade four receives one of ten varieties of plants grown by staff at the Lawton Park Greenhouse for the SCFVA. Students may also order seeds for vegetables, herbs or flowers. Students are responsible to grow their plants and seeds which they enter in their schools’ annual Plant, Flower and Vegetable Shows. All of those shows culminate in the City-wide Blue-Ribbon Show at McMillen Community Center.
Over 17,000 plants and over 3,800 seed packets were delivered to students in April of 2024.
Lynda Heavrin, Manager of Landscape and Horticulture for the Fort Wayne Parks and Recreation Department and SCFVA Executive Committee Advisor said “in my 26 years working with this program, I’m ever amazed at the engagement of the children and their families. They are so proud of their plants! We endeavor to ‘further education about nature, growing flowers, plants and vegetables’ and in the process ‘mold characteristics’ of patience and responsibility which will help them become good citizens of the future.” She continued “We are grateful to all the parents, school chairpersons, judges and other volunteers who invest time in teaching the benefits of gardening.”
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