Originally published in The Vidette-Messenger of Porter County on May 8, 1981.
Planting for Mom
Primary teachers and 85 students from Brummitt School in Chesterton stopped at the Samuelson Nursery Thursday on their way to lunch at the Dunes National Lakeshore. With the help of nursery owners Max and Fran Samuelson, each child planted a plant (we can’t tell what it is) for their mothers for Mother’s Day. To keep the plant a secret until Sunday, only fathers were allowed to chaperone the trip
Teacher Alma Hall uses the colorful and fragrant setting to talk to the students about the wildflowers they will hunt for at the park after lunch.
(V-M photos: Nancy Pekarek)
Nick Dailey (above) packs soil around his special plant.
(V-M photos: Nancy Pekarek)
During the tour (above) the children walked through greenhouses, saw flowers being watered, looked at various seedlings and learned how the soil is cleaned by being baked in a hopper.
(V-M photos: Nancy Pekarek)