We live in a very country area. My son is in kindergarten....the little ones LOVE projects like this! Our school district would get "hung up" (for lack of better wording) on making sure it was "fair" to all students... if you offer to one...then you'd have to offer to others. Our district is very large. There just wouldn't be any way to put an ad on the schools webpage or newsletter. One thing that you may be able to do though...since you've done this every year, Have it be an ongoing project...Mrs. "Cozy's" Kindergarten Garden report. Give handouts to the students with fun little reports from the kids. On the first report (at the beginning of this season) you could include info to the parent on how to "register" their child's garden. (almost like a form to fill out). child's name, name of the garden, what they would like to grow, would they grow in pots or ground?, need a tiller to get started? need more info to get started? grow by seeds or transplants? Have them either include their phone number to contact them back or include YOUR phone number to get in touch with them for tilling. I realize that this is quite in depth but if the form was simple enough for the parents to check off the boxes, you would know a bit more about the home situation of each child. First contact would be made. That's a wonderful idea! I would hope that your school is easy to work with and you have success in trying to help. Maybe it would be just as easy to just ask the kids...who has a yard? Who has a garden? Would you like to have a garden? Tell them...here...take this card with a phone number on it...and the parents can call for tilling or help. Please let us know how it goes! Best of luck!

I received mine in the past few days too! They are absolutely great. In fact, one type of seed I was hunting for at HD, but they did not have it - they got rid of all their seeds by then. Others I received, I've been wanting to try. I am now collecting food containers for winter sowing. I think I will need to start late in the winter, though, Feb or March rather than now for some of the seeds. It will be hot for quite a while and the seedlings would then freeze later. Some, I will plant now and enjoy all winter for winter flowers. Thank you so much.

Trudi,I rec'd my seeds the other day, Thank you for the wonderful selection. I am up to 28 jugs on the back porch, Filling and seeding as the pop, milk and OJ jugs are emptied. How fun. Will be hitting the local Day Care Center up for their milk jugs this week. Thank you for the WS info, happy I came across the site.

I know several!! Caramel Cheetos® AKA Goose Poop 2 cups light brown sugar 1 cup margarine - yes, for this one you must use margarine 1/2 cup light corn syrup 1/2 tsp. baking soda 1 - 21 oz. pkg. Cheetos® - crunchy kind Mix sugar, margarine and corn syrup in pan. Bring to a boil. Boil 5 minutes, stirring often. Remove from heat and add soda. Stir until light in color and foamy. Spray a roasting pan (deep 10 x 14) with Pam. Put Cheetos® in pan. Pour the mixture over Cheetos® and stir, coating each piece. Place in oven at 250 degrees. Bake for 1 hour stirring every 15 minutes. Immediately, pour onto wax paper, or cookie sheets, sprayed with Pam. (This is the hard part.) VERY QUICKLY spread out as thin as possible. If not quick and spread out as thin as possible, you will get a big hard glob. After about 5 minutes, pull/break these apart even more and loosen them from the wax paper. If you don't, you'll have wax paper stuck to them when you go to eat them. You will regret it if you don't double the batch as guests are going to demand MORE! You can bake batches together and add an extra 20 minutes to bake time. I do them separately because of having to work so quickly to keep them apart at the end. The one batch can almost get too hard while working with the other batch. Another would be cheese in a spray can and crackers, or how about a carton of sour cream mixed with a package of onion soup mix? Another might be a package of little smokies in a sauce of catsup, grape jelly and Frenche's yellow mustard. Bean dip served out of the can with a bag of corn chips on the side is pretty tacky too. Sounds like a fun party! Linda C