Megan Fitzgerald is a senior at Dunwoody High School and has been a Girl Scout since kindergarten. She just completed her Girl Scout Gold Award entitled “Planting Seeds for Life”.
During
the quarantine, Megan passed time growing plants to liven up her room. To share
her love of gardening with other students, she founded a new club at DHS: the
Horticulture Club. The club met for educational presentations (thanks to
Dunwoody North neighbors Chuck White and neighborhood Certified Georgia
Naturalist Sarah Sanke) and worked on projects to beautify the Dunwoody area.
Working
with the Donaldson Banister Farm, Megan created a landscape plan for the area
around the flagpole, then raised money to purchase plants, and installed them
with the help of Horticulture Club members. The club also partnered with the
DHS HART Club to decorate and install birdhouses throughout the trail behind
the DHS baseball fields, and to install additional plantings in the DHS
courtyard.
As
these projects grow, and the Horticulture Club continues in the upcoming years,
Megan hopes that the seeds she planted will take root to keep Dunwoody growing
and to inspire other students to continue learning!
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