By Carol Lea Spence, University of Kentucky
Buzzing with excitement, 200 or so students swarmed off school buses and onto the farm.
The entire eighth grade class from Leestown Middle School in Lexington spread out along a tiny tributary of Cane Run Creek on the University of Kentucky College of Agriculture, Food and Environment’s Spindletop Farm. Under the direction of UK undergraduate and graduate students, staff and alumni, the middle-schoolers’ mission was to plant native wildflowers and wetland plants that will entice a variety of pollinators, including seriously threatened honeybees, as well as improve water quality in the heavily impaired Cane Run watershed.
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