Cadette Troop 40421 recently took a tour of the State College High School aquaponics lab! Aquaponics is a food production system that couples aquaculture (raising aquatic animals like fish in tanks) with hydroponics (cultivating plants in water) whereby the nutrient-rich aquaculture water is fed to hydroponically grown plants! Cadettes were able to meet the fish…
Category: Garden
Sunflower House
Over the summer, Brownies from Troop 41162 grow a Sunflower House in Tudek Park with the help of the entire Service Unit. Thank you to all our dedicated Sunflower Tenders as well as the girls who painted rocks to help line the house entrance!
Summer at the Butterfly Garden
Are you looking for a take action project for your troop this summer? Or do you just like to garden? Or maybe your daughter likes to play with plants and you have a black thumb… State College Girl Scouts maintains a plot in the Snetsinger Butterfly Garden in Tudek Park. This plot provides a space…
Sun Flower House
This summer girls from Troops 40170 and 40213 planted a sun flower circle at the Snetsinger Butterfly Garden in Tudek Park and grew a forest of sun flowers! We encourage everyone to visit the garden to enjoy the hard work of our girls and all the other volunteers that maintain the habitat.
Snetsinger Butterfly Garden – Summer Work Schedule
Christine and Megan will be leading work sessions at the Snetsinger Butterfly Garden on Wednesday’s from 6:00 PM to 7:00 PM and on Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 10:30 AM. Come out to learn about the plants and the animals the habitat supports and help us to maintain this beautiful resource. Girls of all levels…